Konstantin Ernst and other celestials

The media community is discussing a great and interesting interview with Channel One director Konstantin Ernst to Session magazine.

Konstantin Lvovich is certainly one of the most intelligent and successful people in modern television. The latest interview confirms this. An adequate (in words) understanding of the role of television: “the function of TV is not to educate, but to reflect and try to explain time.” A precise understanding that there are no actors who could “articulate” today’s time; words about the crisis of world cinema and an explanation of the popularity of the freak cop from the series "Capercaillie".
Things get interesting when trying to analyze recent political events. Instead of honestly saying something like “I’m doing the best I can, there are limitations, and I made my choice,” Ernst instead begins to provide a philosophical ideological basis for his cowardice. Here, for example, is how he explains the December events:
...current eighteen-year-olds. I think about them a lot. And in connection with the December events, in particular. For example, I am interested in assessing the events taking place now not only from a political point of view, but also from a generational point of view... . In 1991, when everything broke down, young people came to power in editorial offices, in companies, on television, in the state - everywhere. They were a generation or half a generation younger than this should have happened under a normal system... Today, the next half-generation has come up against these sitting ones. "Move over, it's our turn." But those from the nineties came early, they are still young, they have an incomparable, terrible experience of the nineties... And they are not ready to give up their positions and, according to the Hamburg account, should not give them up. This is a giant existential problem. People are not given space, traffic is slowed down. Therefore, discontent grows, and people always find someone to blame. Goat producers on television, goat producers in cinema, greedy and stupid distributors of periodicals. Putin in the Kremlin. This is a problem of historical shift, and, unlike political problems, it has no definite solution."

Let me remind you that these clever words about the conflict of generations are said by a person whose channel is one of the propaganda pillars of the regime, a channel where the tone is set by such “authorities of honest journalism” as Mikhail Leontyev and Maxim Shevchenko, a channel whose news not a single decent person watches for about eight years now.
Answering the question about the definition of “zero,” Ernst continues to philosophize: “This is the time of fog, from the depths of which a steam locomotive is approaching with a terrible metallic clang. I think that humanity is at a very important phase of development when it is losing control over what it has invented."
It is clear that every big TV boss from the big three channels has his own explanation for why he is in this position and does what he does. One should not think that the public demands heroism and the impossible from everyone, but it definitely demands honesty, at least to oneself. We have enough people in our society who understand everything about you and your motives, so there is no need to try to “cloud” simple things with complex explanations.
As Ernst accurately noted, recalling the protest rallies: “There were many different slogans in the squares, and only one very precise one: “You don’t even represent us.” Very precise and versatile."

Indeed, multifaceted. Today, with this slogan, you can safely address Ernst, Dobrodeev and Kulistikov on behalf of millions of television viewers: “You don’t even imagine us”!