And pity for the fallen ...

It has long been a good tone to scold television. Especially informational and information analytical programs. I, the right word, want to regret them.

Well, tell me the mercy, make reporters who are collected in the premiere residence in Novo-Ogarev, hold for several hours in languid expectation, someone, they say, is already beginning to whisper to build unthinkable assumptions: what if Putin announces a resignation? And here is a surprise, a surprise! The Prime Minister appears in the company of Tigrenka donated to him for his birthday.

But what to do to the presenter of the analytical weekly state television channel when he is brought to a prolonged television report on how last summer the prime minister was resting in Tuva?

Here is the position of an employee of state television is almost more depleted than the fate of the revolutionary cruiser from the mischievous poem by Joseph Brodsky “Performance”:

Oh you, the fate of the ship:

Say "Pu!" - Answer "Fuck!"

On the one hand, the material is really “exclusive” - how can you refuse this? Here Putin, naked to the waist, demonstrates a pumped torso, takes the fish, knee -deep in a fast mountain river. Here Putin in the hunting camouflage, with a gun, studies something in binoculars. Here is Putin on a horse against a wild landscape. Here Putin himself drove, drives a jeep along a difficult mountain road. A high rating is guaranteed.

On the other hand, you are the gentlemen leading, not just reporters - you are analysts! Explain what the signal sends the country and the world to the Putin’s press service, not for the first time spreading such personnel? Hunting for a tiger for Ussuri, DVD with judo lessons, now this. You want to say again that the Prime Minister is in excellent physical shape? Who would doubt it! Then what? Silence.

Our state TV is doomed to be an instrument of propaganda, you say. Doomed? Or just courage and skill is not enough?

You can relate to the correspondent of Kommersant Andrei Kolesnikov differently, the ninth year working next to Putin, but we must admit: he can always, when he wants to, tell about any event with the participation of president-premier with caustic irony, which destroys the entire pathos of the official “protocol”. Just do not say that it is impossible to do the same with television means.

Here I look through the once native Channel NTV Sweet, just a sugary report on how Putin came to the editorial office to congratulate the Enteves on the 15th anniversary. How interesting it was possible to actually tell about this visit! At least remember when and under what circumstances Putin talked to NTV reporters the previous time. How many of those who then, in January 2001, went to the Kremlin in the naive hope that Putin would not allow to defeat the “old” NTV, today are working on the channel today? After all, there was only one Tatyana Mitkova, and then no longer in the frame.

It could be recalled that the chairman of the VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev, who acted as the main presidential guide on the NTV rooms and studios, was the previous time there April in the morning of 2001: he persuaded journalists who were about to leave the channel in protest against the power seizure of the editors from Gazprom, “stay in the profession” and heard in response: “There is, Oleg, Oleg, Oleg, Oleg, Oleg Borisovich, things are more important in life than a profession. ” But how to make such a plot to NTV journalists? In truth, it would have turned out impolite: the prime minister to visit them-and they are in the face of the truth-uterus. But not a single other channel did anything like that.