From UZHK to Hz

Those who could do something and did not claim anything quickly grabbed state channels. Those who knew how to, but also claimed, melted through new channels, which either opened or closed, and as they opened the coverage of these people, also grabbed state channels. Those who knew how to claim and did not want to neither for new channels, nor to the state, they remained where they were, mainly with an increase, but also not for long; Everyone then had something like this, after which he went to the state channel. There were also those who did not claim anything and simply did that they knew how to (sports commentators, criminal reporters), and nothing has changed in their life to such an extent, that it’s not worth talking about them; Although in fact it changed - twelve years ago they did not remove the “anatomy of protest”, but now they are being removed, but they even like it, so it’s really not worth talking about them.

There were still, in minimal quantities, completely scumbags, which did not get anywhere at all. One wrote the book “Here was NTV” in the devil knows how many volumes, the other, the most important, it seems, became a TV star in Ukraine, that is, too, in general, nowhere. And the most Buddhists quietly sat all these years in their garden programs and waited for the rain - too, by the way, an option, to wait only twelve years.

About this from 2013, the history of the defeat of NTV and its consequences look. There was nothing heroic in this story, but there was no disaster, life did not end for anyone in April 2001, Sorokina remained Sorokina, and Dibrov - Dibrov. Now, it seems, only one Alfred Koch is a business until that April - he sits with a kind of ghost on Facebook and repeats: I did everything right then, everything was right. And no one even argues with him, there is no one to argue.

The expression "links of a fiction chain" today is as a "unique journalistic team" twelve years ago. The first time they said - normal, the twentieth time - too, after the hundredth pronunciation, this is no longer a tragic sob, but a hackneyed meme. They don’t even say “fucking chain”, they say “Hz”-as once “zhk”.

They don’t even say “fucking chain”, they say “Hz”-as once “zhk”.

And the rest is the same. In the photographs from the next gatherings in RIA Novosti-the faces of the link of the Grebana chain, Mikhailov, who “and the partners” came to ITAR-TASS just as on time, as Dobrodeev once in the VGTRK, and news about resignations and dismissal are often accompanied by explanations like “I will go to TASS” or, conversely, “I won’t go to TASS”; If in 2001 there were social networks, Elizabeth Listova would write: "I will not go to the RTR." And then I would go.

The journalistic dismissals and resignations of the last year, no matter how many of them and no matter how gloomy it becomes a media after them, God forgive me, the landscape - this is still nothing more than the totality of private stories of private people, none of whom is ready for the role of a boring fighter for freedom of speech. We will definitely meet someone in TASSI, someone in RIA, someone in the Rossiya newspaper, and someone will remain in the same place and will write the same as before, well, or the new “anatomy of protest”, if not lucky. The main lesson of 2001 - it is about this: nothing will happen, nothing at all.

And the second lesson - well, we saw people who, not wanting to compromise, turned into one continuous “here was NTV” (here I even want to apologize to Shenderovich that I remember him the second time - but he is the most indicative, of course). Their experience is sad, but at least when it is, it is easier to avoid its repetition.