On Fridayâs âPBS NewsHour,â Washington Post columnist and Deputy Editorial Page Editor Karen Tumulty said that Russiaâs âappallingâ detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich earlier in the week took place because Vladimir Putin âmade a calculationâ that Russiaâs detention of Brittney Griner âreally worked out in their favor. They released her, and they got a really bad guy