Plush press show

I honestly admit: the annual New Year's Event “Big press conference of Vladimir Putin” is interesting to me rather as a historian and ... a photographer, rather than a journalist. In the end, not every historian can, at least once a year, get the immediate impressions of the "head of the state", so to speak, live. Not to mention a great case to capture it on your camera. And isn't it worth a dear possibility of this way ... Try to proudly show these pictures to children and grandchildren, giving out the sacramental “I saw Putin!”?

But from the point of view of journalism, alas, there is absolutely nothing to write about: in my memory, nothing substantial in this format has yet been issued once. The directing of the show itself practically does not leave a chance to hear a meaningful question, and if such a miracle will happen, then there will definitely not be another miracle - in the form of a substantial answer, although, of course, it can, who else believes in New Year's miracles.

Nevertheless, if you manage to break out of the editorial office, you can have fun, seeing an abundance in the press conference hall, in the expression of my good friend, "blondes of both sexes." Who are constantly shaking with posters and herds of huge plush-gray-gray-brim-raspberry bears, tigers, elephants, camels, giraffes, crocodiles, cheburashki, etc. By the way, all representatives of this plush fauna were produced in China, but this is so, by the way. Those rare lucky ones and lucky ones, which manage to attract the moment of the “national leader”, then either unintelligiblely mumble with delight, or excitedly and is inoperatively explained to him in love, expelledly reporting on the happy transformations that happened to them after visiting the previous press conference. True, this time the concept of the performance, apparently, has changed: serious comrades in civilian protection from presidential protection, ignoring the moans and cries of blondes from journalism, mercilessly requisitioned a plush animal at the entrance to the hall.

In words, you can’t convey my sincere and, as I understand now, extremely naive amazement from the sight and, most importantly, the “content” of the issues of this public. I always wanted to ask: who are all these people, how they got here, what are they related to journalism, at whose expense they accumulated through the whole country and back, receiving run, trembling, business trips, per diem and other menstruation?! Now I’m no longer surprised, the overall, came to understanding: in the Kremlin administration, really wise people are sitting: who needs to be accredited-it is necessary to dilute the nanogroup of too serious the journalistic public with a cheerful jacket of extras. In the end, it is necessary at least at least at the end of the year to come off, showing the population on the air, so to speak, the “true face” of domestic journalism. Therefore, the hall is massively filled with representatives of such outstanding publications as “six acres”, “triad”, “Made in Russia”, “LDPR in Khakassia”, “Shadow”, “You+I = Country”, “Nation”. There is a reason to be proud of Russia ”,“ Authoritative radio from Krasnoyarsk ”,“ Civil Forces.ru ”,“ All about business and career ”,“ Management counseling ”,“ At your service ”...

But what does such offices as, for example, a kind of “children's television training center”, a presidential library, not to mention officials of all kinds of regional governments?! In 2012, I was not too lazy to count on the list of accredited: at the press conference, only 23 really serious publications were presented. At the same time, simply a disproportionate number of conditional journalists from Rashi Tuei, Gabrelyanovskaya sharashka, etc., was striking, etc. Tell me to mercy, why, for example, to accredit almost twenty people only from the Zvezda television channel? Or under three dozen conditional colleagues from Rashi Tuei?!

This year did not even count, and it was clear that real journalists smeared this thick sandwich with a thin, thin layer-well, apparently, to be. Moreover, what is the difference, who is there and how much, if everything is scenario is written in advance and everyone is known that the question posed at first will be allowed to ask Kostersantovsky to duty officer Kolesnikov, no less loyal to Kondratyeva, abundantly covered all this with vinaigular blondes and blondes with plush bears The guard does not seize). Which, of course, does not exclude the dilution of the forty barrels of prisoners of the strictly dosed drop of certain random (or not very random) seriousities, the answer to which will still not be - the “show Mast Gow” ...

In the photo: Russia. Moscow. December 18. Journalists at a large annual press conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Center for International Trade on Krasnaya Presnya. Sergey Fadeichev/TASS and Vladimir Voronov