Flight to the Cuckoo's Nest

Once upon a time I had to work with this form of water activity - like a “cuckoo”.

This is an interesting invention. Each voter is bombarded with a huge avalanche of information during elections. Often it is either thrown away, or not looked at, or not listened to. How to make it so that it is perceived? So the headquarters hires a “cuckoo” - a normal citizen, but a responsible one. He adds up everything that has fallen on his head and records his impressions. Then, with pleasure, he reports to the staff what thoughts and emotions aroused in him.



It’s frosty here on weekends... Why, I think, waste time? There is the greatest invention of mankind - a TV in the kitchen?! At the same time, under the noise of household work, I will test myself in the role of such a “cuckoo”.

My consciousness, unclouded by the Internet, surrendered itself to several television products.
The program “First Class” with Ivan Okhlobystin as the presenter (Channel 1);
“Vesti” (RTR) on Saturday and Sunday;
“Results of the week” (NTV);
“Poscriptum” with Alexey Pushkov and “In the Center of Events” with Anna Prokhorova (TVC).

The impressions were very monotonous. Everywhere they “drove” the same plots, with minor changes in interpretation.

— They talked a lot and for a long time about all Putin’s movements. He took up the most significant amount of airtime. They gave Zyuganov and Zhirinovsky the opportunity to speak. They showed a little bit of the speeches of Mironov and Yavlinsky. Prokhorov was not allowed to say almost anything.

— “Authoritative persons” were once again called upon to campaign “for Putin.” This time the main character was the President of Tatarstan, probably to impress the Muslim part of the country.

“I’m ready for dialogue,” Putin said everywhere, but for some reason he spoke alone. None of his interlocutors were allowed to say anything. I mean on the air. We probably all understand the semantics of the word “dialogue” differently.

- The intonation of the presenters made me laugh - EVERY word of the current Prime Minister was presented as the greatest revelation. Moreover, with the Komsomol energy of a person eager to fight, ready to immediately jump through the glass of a television screen.

— The television editing was appropriate. The Messiah spoke, and everyone listened and nodded in agreement. Well, they’re just “Lenin’s walkers”! And in general, everything is in the style of the Ilyichs at the beginning and end of the twentieth century.

“I would like to ask why a person, having been in power for so many years, suddenly only now began to generate ideas on the topic “how can we develop Russia?” Why were these ideas tracked somewhere before?

“I was also pleased with how they convinced me that life had become better, richer, more successful. Personally, my wallet, refrigerator, and phone in the voice of my friends spoke of the opposite. But what pathos there was on TV!!

In short, there was so much sugar and syrup that even Winnie the Pooh, who has a sweet tooth, would be swollen from allergies.

Against this background, the “First Class” program with Ivan Okhlobystin should have become some variety. I’m not a fan of his, but they promised to tell us about Prokhorov. And I was wondering what his PR people came up with. I decided to take a look.

At the beginning, Okhlobystin said a lot of words, each of which was understandable in itself, but all taken together was not. There was a desire to change the channel. Here I deviated from the rules of the experiment and did not switch by force of will.
She was rewarded with the first story about Prokhorov. I looked carefully. Then the gobbledygook of incomprehensible words and incomprehensible faces began again. I got bored and switched. Against the backdrop of that bird chatter, the interview with the President of Tatarstan on RTR looked exceptionally smart and thoughtful.

Stayed on RTR. It was interesting, albeit in the spirit of Ilyich. But they talked and expressed themselves in human language. And there was a thought. And not alone. Then she returned to Prokhorov/Okhlobystil, logically understanding that there was something else there. Prokhorov listened to the Scorpions.

I then looked it up on the Internet. What are your impressions? If without Okhlobystin, then: not false, without hysterics, without screaming and screaming, very correct. It’s somewhat smiling when first about a mansion with servants, and then about a standard two-room apartment. The style of the plots is so normal, businesslike. Doesn't irritate, creates a positive mood. Just a little sad. Although for the female part of the electorate it may be just that.

I'll probably watch TV more often now. Something different appears, and creativity is always interesting.

Original.