The blue light is warming

Public television is slowly lying

Russian public television began broadcasting six months ago, May 19, on the day of Pioneer, or thereby emphasizing that it is a pioneer, or hinting that a pioneer is an example to all the guys. An interested and pre -informed audience, having difficulty finding a new channel (who is on her own TV, some on the Internet), closed the screens, waiting for a breakthrough and happiness of touching the real, socially useful and free from state dictatorship TV.

The anticipation, however, quickly changed in bewilderment - as if a time machine had transferred the audience to decades ago. No, in the new “product” there was no ideological blindness of the Soviet agitprop, but how unbearably fresh it turned out to be “pioneer” TV! (However, I won’t repeat myself, I will simply send readers to my article from 24.05 with her leitmotif: “Boring, gentlemen!”))

And now six months have passed - time to summarize the preliminary results. In December, the Fund Public Opinion (FOM) conducted a sociological survey, finding out whether the Russians were watching. According to this survey, 65% of Russians have never heard about the launch of broadcasting OTR, 19%-they heard something, and only 12% know for sure. And therefore, there is now public TV in nature, but for the vast majority of domestic spectators it is, as it were, it is not.

Moreover, even people practically do not write about the OTR, on duty, which are obliged to watch and “survey” everything that happens in the country's television space. Here, apparently, the disappointment from the first days and weeks of broadcasting and the initial prejudice played a role - few believed that a sprout of freedom could suddenly appear on the territory of TV, which was totally rolled into asphalt. Few suggested that the state that put a muzzle for all other channels would, for no reason, would let go of another state, in fact, slyly named by the “public”.

And yet, six months after my first unsuccessful spectator experience, I decided to overcome skepticism and see what the products that public TV offer society now, and how it differs from the typical one that is in abundance on other channels of the country.

The main and amazing discovery: there were no signs on this television ... Propaganda, the ears of which today come out almost everywhere.

But here the truly discussion talk show “Rights? Yes!” Was found, which Pavel Sheremet has recently been leading. While on all large federal channels the full -time television propagandists, not sparing their abdomen, fought with the rebellious Maidan, Sheremet spent a smart, calm and honest conversation, having previously visited Kyiv and inviting Russian journalists to the studio, which covered Ukrainian events in their media. Unlike “colleagues” from large channels, Sheremet and his guests clearly described the background and chronology of events, sympathetically - the atmosphere on the Maidan and, in the end, characterized what was happening as an “exemplary civil protest”. The opinions of the host and participants of the program were backed up by plots from the Maidan and the inclusion of eyewitnesses in Kyiv in the conversation. "Is it true!" It turned out to be the best, perhaps, the most professional program about the events in Ukraine, which was completely devoid of jerks and patriotic screens inherent in the corporate style of the flooded “Kremlin nightingales”.

Another release of the current show "Right? Yes!" Sheremet spent last week in a meeting format with an interesting person. “An interesting person” was Vladimir Voinovich - a guest rare for the current TV. Journalists - literary observer Nikolai Alexandrov, editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Top Secret" Lyudmila Telion and the chief editor of the "New Izvestia" Valery Yakov were also invited to the studio. The conversation was not limited only to literature - the fate of the protagonist, his frank thoughts about the past, present and future of Russia compiled the content of this one and a half hour output, in which, it seemed, there were neither the usual figures of silence, nor even more so - a hint of censorship scissors.

And the program “Social Network”, focused on the young network audience, discussed the upcoming amnesty and tried along with the defendants of the most high -profile political processes to predict who would fall under this amnesty. After a series of short interviews with a marshmallow’s house arrest, Nikolai Caucasian, with her husband, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Peter Verzilov, photographer-Greek, Denis Sinyakov and Peter Officer, Aleksey Navalny, in the studio about the detention of prisoners and the conditions of detention of prisoners were told Businessman Alexey Kozlov. Wow the set of heroes, isn't it? The second part of the program also turned to the latest events in Ukraine and showed the appeal of George Clooney in support of the protesters. And there was still a curious plot shot in Novosibirsk in the program - about the lawsuit of the Association of Siberian Fathers against teachers who tore off children from lessons and pulled out in the frost in order to meet the Olympic fire touring in the country. At the same time, there was nothing particularly radical in these subjects - just the creators of the program were guided by the agenda, which the network forms and which, alas, is increasingly diverging from the agenda of the day formed and reflected by federal television channels.

The final Sunday release of the news OTR completely and completely devoted to the International Day of Human Rights. And the audience was able to see and understand how the most ordinary people in different cities of the country are self -organized to protect their rights, largely refuting the President Putin’s replica that the state and human rights defenders were engaged in the same thing.

But not only the policy and protection of human rights lives. In the program “Cultural Exchange” I saw a good interview with Sergey Nikolaevich with the chief director of the Youth Theater, Henrietta Yanovskaya. And finally, I was glad for a rich Sunday film screen. The “long farewell” of Sergei Ursulyak, the “simple things” of Alexei Popogrebsky and the film “On Love” by Mikhail Bogin - such a repertoire for one day is unlikely to allow itself even the “Culture” channel.

Of course, the broadcasting grid OTR is replete with repetitions. Of course, a lot in the “menu” of OTR is far from perfect and looks deeply archaic, but in its best programs this channel seems to gradually grop out its intonation and turns of the topics, and most importantly, tries to find its hero and its viewer-a thinking, active, indifferent, thanks to which the same civil society is being formed in the country. To which, in fact, the public TV of Russia should be addressed.