Leonid Shakhov about the media and provocateurs

On June 12, 2007, the day after Aleksey Bulatov's comment in the newspaper Your Day, caused by the coverage of the events in Stavropol, columnist Leonid Shakhov made a similar remark in the newspaper Life for the whole week.

L. Shakhov develops the idea that the media, at the suggestion of a certain provocateur, present a domestic conflict as "ethnic strife." It cannot be that there was no such provocateur, says the observer, " "otherwise, every banal domestic quarrel would not turn into an interethnic conflict .

“If a monstrous lie is thrown into the media that the heads of Stavropol student boys were cut off, if the media publish this nonsense without checking, if they publish it on the second, third and even on the fourth day, if they publish it after a refutation, then all this is done with a specific and understandable goal - to kindle a fire for an inter-ethnic fire .

"Someone has long and stubbornly been trying to separate the Caucasus from Russia ," continues L. Shakhov, and recalls the danger of this: "If you kindle an interethnic fire here, it could end with the end of the world . "

The reviewer for Life All Week didn't elaborate on the idea of ​​press responsibility in his short commentary, but it is clear that he places some of the blame on the media for this development.

Sources

• Shakhov L. Cut off the Caucasus // Life for the whole week. 2007. June 12.