Problems of linguistics

The popular program “Visiting Dmitry Gordon” has been closed on the First National TV Channel of Ukraine.

For nine years, the journalist's guests were: Nikolai Amosov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Stanislav Govorukhin, Sergei Bubka, Muslim Magomaev, Irina Rodnina, Eduard Shevardnadze, Oleg Blokhin, Yuri Lyubimov, Vladislav Tretyak, Joseph Kobzon, Roman Viktyuk, Vitaly Korotich, Elina Bystritskaya, Mikhail Svetin, Boris Efimov, Vladimir Maslachenko, Eduard Limonov, Roman Kartsev, Oleg Tabakov, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Gennady Khazanov, Alexey Mikhailichenko, Alexander Rosenbaum, Vladimir Etush, Edita Piekha, Valentin Gaft... Was on air with Dm. Gordon and Viktor Shenderovich.

The reason for the closure (performed by the acting president of the television company Vasily Ilashchuk) is as follows: the program cannot be broadcast on the First National Channel of Ukraine, because most of its heroes are Russian-speaking... At the same time, Mr. Ilashchuk allowed himself a couple of phrases with Black Hundred content, from which it became clear that that the Russian-speaking nature of the guests is not yet the worst sin of the program host...

Television is not Ukrainian or Russian, just as it is not Kalmyk or Ethiopian.

Television can be talented or mediocre. It unites people around the concept of honor or awakens the base in them. Enlightens or fills the heads of TV viewers with tops.

And it doesn’t matter what language the tops are made from. It doesn’t matter in what language people receive good thoughts or just honest information.

People communicate in different languages. Millions of Ukrainian citizens speak Russian, and, for example, millions of US citizens speak Spanish. Many residents of, for example, Florida do not speak a word of English.

However, if a high-ranking official there, for patriotic reasons, closes a top-rated television program broadcast in Spanish, he will find himself unemployed the next morning, and then, perhaps, he will go to court.

I don’t know the exact American wording of the charge - Ilf and Petrov defined it as “bungling with burglary.” (I hope that the head of the First National TV Channel, Vasily Ilashchuk, will find the strength to forgive these natives of Odessa for writing in Russian.)

I heard that Ukraine is striving for a united Europe - I would really like to see this... But with the views of Mr. Ilashchuk, it will only come to a united Uganda: it was in this wonderful country that, long before Mr. Ilashchuk, the national media were unified and driven out forty years ago out all the Jews. Now they live happily.

But in Uganda.

In Europe they live differently.

Xenophobes are not honored there, and people communicate in the languages ​​that are convenient for them.

However, people communicate, and officials issue circulars. The circular can be published in any language - it does not matter, the main thing is the meaning.

The language of Taras Shevchenko can be reduced to the word “get”, but this will not be a great honor for Ukraine.