NTV: We "stuck" Putin from Self -irony

Replacing the duckly grunts of the words "Putin", "Medvedev" and a number of others from the song "Moscow" of the Leningrad group, which sounded on the Sunday air of the Central Television program on NTV, was "Self -irony, not an act of censorship." As RIA Novosti reports, this was stated by the host of the program Vadim Takmenev. He expressed regret that the joke "not everyone understood."

In the air of the program of mentioning the leader of the group Sergei Shnurov, the first persons of the state were disguised as a duck grunt along with the words "fucking" and "khachi". At the same time, the names adjacent to Putin and Medvedev Ksenia Sobchak and Alexei Navalny, as well as the mention of the Pussy Riot group were left in the text. And in the phrase "Temple of the Savior" only the word "temple" was hidden. The lines dedicated to journalists of federal television channels: “Ostankino burned down quickly, but could not drown,” were left by editors without changes.

"It seemed to us that this is a ridiculous technique that in this song this song, with the help of giant ducks, would be blown by the names of the president and the prime minister and the famous building with the domes that sang about there. But no one understood Self -irony," Takmenev said.

He noted that if the goal were censorship, the authors of the program would choose another method. “And there were several options - well, for example, asking the Leningrad group to sing this song in a more etheric version. There was an option to score words that are now discussing everything, the names of two people, music, so that no one would notice. Or we would not at all put on the air. If we were talking about some kind of censorship. What prevented us from throwing this song?” - asked the host.

The NTV press service confirmed that the NTV television company did not express any wishes about the content of the release of the program. "The Central Television program is in external production. Therefore, all decisions about this musical work were made by manufacturers and editors of" Central Television ",” said Maria Bezborodova, head of the press service of the television channel.