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From Friday to Thursday
Stanislav Belkovsky watched TV
From Friday to Thursday. Russian television channels opened the electoral season. What signals does power to the country from the television screen send? The New Times, using experts, will talk weekly about how the TV refracts reality
The news of the two main state channels are built according to the general template, to find at least a couple of differences is quite difficult to even be an unlimited eye.
Drink bromine
At first - the event of the day, a dramatic, but ultimately returning faith to the viewer to life. For example, September 1 is a bromine leak in Chelyabinsk. The mood is anxious: something will be. But there is no need to worry very much: the leak was half resolved by half, the second half is about to be eliminated. True, local authorities probably lie to their residents, but they will be called to the order on top, if necessary.
Next are the everyday life of a government tandem. Whoever says anything, the main tandemocrat is now still Dmitry Medvedev. The plots about him are a little longer, the irony in them is a little smaller, and the pathos are more than in the stories about Putin. Here Dmitry Anatolyevich arrived at the Stavropol Cadet School. Everything is clean, fresh and tightened. The main idea: there are a lot on the exam, but there is no alternative to him. The guarantor of the success of the exam is personally Medvedev, this is understandable. Bold reforms should be associated with the president. Then - the plot about Putin in high school. Against the background of satisfied students and teachers, the prime minister passes some advanced school test and immediately gives out the wrong answer. Sudden relief, a common good, quiet laughter.
All other domestic policy is reduced to measures taken by the authorities, and the country's correct reaction to these measures. There is no political struggle or opposition in this television in principle.
International news: Libya and Syria. In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi broke off, but we warned him. Because we generally know everything in advance. In Syria, everything is more complicated, there is a distinct anxiety. President Bashar Assad can share the fate of the Libyan ex-dictator, and we are ready for this, but not that we want. By the way, the corpses of the police lie: this means that the opponents of Assad resort to violence and do not believe that only the ruling regime is to blame for everything. In general, the moment to hand over Assad has not yet come, because we will carefully defend him.
Under the curtain - all kinds of Human Interest type “Nanorobots for intestinal resection are created”. On this, the viewer is finally reconciled with reality. The main message of information broadcasting: there are only two politicians in the country, all the rest - either a mass of or from a crafty. "
The main message of information broadcasting: there are only two politicians in the country, all the rest - either a mass of mushrooms, or from a crafty
» Analytics standards
Analytical programs just open the season. In the summer, Sergey Dorenko returned to the big air. True, not to the first channel from which he was expelled in September 2000, but on Ren-TV, still the coming of Dorenko speaks of something. For example, that Vladimir Putin’s influence on a nationwide TV is no longer as great as before. 11 years ago, Putin personally removed the most popular policeman from the screen, because he considered a critical plot about the Kursk Premier League Catastrophe in Dorenko’s program. Since then, Putin on distant approaches rejected any attempts to reconcile with a journalist, all the more on the screen, even as a perfect loyalist. Nevertheless, the day came when Dorenko (apparently, with the help of Vladislav Surkov) broke through this blockade.
In 1999–2000 Sergei Dorenko was on the screen with a heavyweight and a prophet. Now everything is different. And the name of his program is clearly lightweight-“Russian fairy tales”, and the host himself somehow flutters a little frivolously in the studio. Now he no longer announces the truth to the viewer, but is trying to make a confidential conversation with him: like, dear ladies and men, let's figure out how it happens in life without fools ...
At the same time, Dorenko clearly draws the Kremlin ideological and political line, doing it smartly and subtly. In the end, no rude pressure, the viewer, in the end, will guess about everything himself. In the plot about the murder of Ivan Agafonov, the Dagestan champion of Sambo Rasul Mirzaev, the host of the “Russian fairy tales” suggested to think: well, judge, Agafonov-a two-meter barn, and Mirzaev with all his biceps-triceps weighs 63 kg, the ambal of 19 years old comes to the lady for 24 years, which is already very strange-the boy is pestering mature. The woman, in general, was drunk and inadequate, and the athlete has an automatic reaction to everything, they have been working on her in front of the mirror for years. No, no one argues, it’s bad to kill, but you can’t die. But the Agafonov type himself is to blame, and Mirzaev ... In general, sit on the pope exactly, comrades, and do not be excited on this story, especially in the interethnic vein.
The same - and about Libya. The fact that the Russian Federation supported the sanctions and has already recognized the rebels by the legal government is export, within the framework of the Reboot program. And inside ourselves we must clearly understand the two things: 1) the Civil War in Libya was unleashed by the president of France Sarkozy, because Colonel Gaddafi once offended his wife Karl Bruni; 2) As a result of the incident, Libya will turn into one continuous bloody volcano like Somalia. The point of view of the host is confirmed by experts, and not the most frail. Conclusion: the revolutions do not end in anything good, and they are made by crooks-reinforcements; And if someone tells you the opposite, get out in the face.
Sergei Dorenko clearly defines the standard of analytical broadcasting: about Medvedev/Putin - not a word, and it is possible to wet the scapegoat, which have long been all the same: Chubais and cops, they are also police officers. Chubais poured Putin with some British tablet computer for 12 thousand rubles apiece, although you can buy the same, Indian for 2900 rubles. And the cops were completely brutalized, because they want to teach citizens to defend themselves from criminals themselves, and therefore, turn the script-scrices into cheeky robbers. Mochilovo is not brutal and not evil, but funny and optimistic. In general, horror, but not a horror-uzhasus! Watch telescas, they will tame you from the vicissitudes of life.
Against the backdrop of “Russian fairy tales”, the final program “Today” with Kirill Pozdnyakov on NTV (other channels in summing up the results have not yet turned on) looks a boring officialdom. Young Pozdnyakov emphasized static. If the plot is about politics, then brief, unemotional and unbearable. The body of the program is formed by stories about how the authorities of those who are in power and smart people as a whole save us from unexpected disasters such as the invasion of seaside sharks. At the end, the presenter allows himself to be barely relaxed: there is a plot about the registry office for Kikimor and Goblin, open at the progressive governor of the White in the Kirov region, and how to make money on this (and Ulyanovsk, it turns out, is not only Lenin, but also Kolobok). "
We, power, must rule so that the people like. For example, not to release Khodorkovsky, especially before the elections. But deep down, we are liberals
" What deserved
Among the new products of the season is the daily program "Freedom and Justice" on Channel One. It is led by the legendary ex-apparatus of Galina Brezhneva Andrei Makarov, the deputy of the unoross, the former leader of the Justice program on REN TV, with the scandal closed last season. Despite the fact that the new program took the name of the main slogan of the opposition political coalition “Another Russia” (2006-2007), there is no political measurement of “Freedom and Justice”: tearful household plots about the general disorder of Russian life are discussed. For example, September 2 - as doctors in an infectious diseases hospital destroyed a one -year -old girl because they washed her stomach hose for adults. On Ren, at first impression, the program was tougher, there Makarov did not give a descent to officials. It becomes clear that we deserve exactly as much freedom and justice as we have.
Against this background, a “historical process”, a remake on “Russia 1”, the program “Court of Time”, which until recently was published on the fifth channel, looks like a hit. The presenters Sergei Kurginyan and Nikolai Svanidze, under the guise of discussing important events of the past, argue about the iconic matters of the present. Roles are painted very clearly and, apparently, by 101% understandable to the performers. Kurginyan, fastened to all the buttons, with a tie, with a prosecutor’s daddy (“I have all the moves are recorded!”), With the usual breakdown of the provincial tragic - this is the voice of a stomillioned ordinary people, “cattle”, as is commonly called in Zadolesky Wednesdays. Svanidze, dressed by Business Casual, is a herald of advanced Russian liberalism, that deliberate minority, which can not cope with the gloomy "cattle", but in the very least drags Russian history somewhere forward. Each of the co -hosts has its own witnesses/seconds, completely fit into the image format. Spectators interactively vote for that of the debaters whose position is closer to them.
On September 1, the “Historical Process” argued about Mikhail Khodorkovsky. That is, formally, about our homegrown capitalism and how it has been formed since the cooperation of the late 1980s. But in fact, everything understood everything.
Anyone who did not see the program might have thought that the detailed discussion of Khodorkovsky at the second most important Goskanal is a breakthrough into a new information dimension and even a sign of a thaw. In fact - nothing like that. The parties simply recorded two fundamental positions: most and minorities. Kurginyan stabbed that Khodorkovsky is simultaneously the creator and product of criminal capitalism, as well as nomenclature privatization. And he will sit. Svanidze MBH expectedly defended and called for letting go in order to save the investment climate, although he recognized the problem of nomenclature privatization.
It seems that the authorities are trying to say the following with the whole “historical process”. Our people in Russia are bad, hopeless and Dick. Look, look what nonsense the demoniac Kurginyan carries - but the television audience fully supports him, miserable crumbs remain to the share of the intelligent Svanidze. And therefore, we, power, must rule so that the people like. For example, not to release Khodorkovsky, especially before the elections. But deep down, we are liberals. And let the liberals say everything that they want. And we protect them from folk rage. So use elite freedom of speech and do not stutter about democracy ...
Viewers - The New Times
1. What made the strongest impression? 2. Who is “urinated” (praised)? 3. What important, from your point of view, did the television show not showed?
1. The “historical process” causes me protest and indignation. A cheap performance, distorting facts - this is all unethical.
2. They criticize liberals. Negative assessment of the 90s. Nostalgia for the USSR.
Rustem Adagamov, blogger
1-3. The last time I watched TV somewhere in April. I don’t even remember what was going on there. I don’t look, because I am absolutely uninteresting to me.
Glory Tarotin, telekritik, observer of Novaya Gazeta
1. The fresh initiative of the updated format of "evening news" on Channel One was struck. The release was opened by a report on a cannibal from Murmansk. From scrupulous, carefully collected details, he was sleeping from the first minute. Apparently, such stories mean the search for a new television language for information broadcasting, which was significantly spoke of the creators of the updated format of “evening news” in preliminary announcements.
2. Now is not a time of bright emotions. There is a process of accumulating forces before the next, last and decisive, battles of the electorate with the authorities for power. Therefore, so far the loud Mochilov is not observed by the type of last year, Luzhkovsky. The question with praises is also solved simply: we have a tandem of the Sun and the Moon, which is constantly operating on the TV, which is beyond all praise.
3. TV traditionally ignored on August 31 on triumphal. And again, Beslan traditionally ignored. We have a one -time memory: we remember the last terrorist attack, but the previous ones have already forgotten.
Georgy Satarov, President of the Indem Foundation
1. When I see the tragic nasolabial folds on the face of Andrei Makarov, as if he was burying the entire administration of the president, the government and “United Russia”, and the conversation is fantastic fineness, it is simply a pity. The federal channel cannot deal with problems that should be solved at the level of local self -government. It is not necessary.
2. I prefer to watch the news not through Russian channels.
O. Mikhail Ardov, Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
1. The strongest impression was happening on the east coast of the United States.
2. When I get to our news, I always hear who Medvedev brought, what Putin said ... Makarov was talking about some heartless officials in the program. Is this "Mochilovo"?
3. Ugly forget and silence what happened seven years ago in Beslan.
Sergey Filatov, President of the Fund of Socio-Economic and Intellectual Programs
2. It seems to me that the central channels are unevenly illuminating Prokhorov: sometimes he is “soaked” and belittled. These games are very noticeable and greatly discredit the Kremlin.
Peter Shkumatov, activist of the "Blue Vederok"
1-3. For eleven years I have not watched TV. I learn the news on the Internet.
Prepared by Olga Osipova