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Daily magazine: Operate
The conflict between the leadership of the Duma “Osra” and the editor -in -chief of “MK” Pavel Gusev, which was pushed into the background by the death of Boris Berezovsky, in front of our eyes acquires the features of the operetta. Instead of the should be a quick disassembly and an approximate, tough punishment of “abused freedom of word” of journalists, there is a long noisy squabble.
Beautiful ladies, who on their fingers explained that they were offended, make the appropriate faces. Their cavaliers are pawing in their place where the sword should be located, but they do not find anything corresponding to either size or noble masculinity there and are noticeably upset. While their opponent, Pavel Gusev, with a cold gin, beats the delayed years for 20 accusations of advertising of intimate services: “And is this intimate? And do you call it services? Here you have in "United Russia" ... "All this Galdezha is colored with a cheerful, cold -blooded tantrum of Zhirinovsky.
Meanwhile, at first everything seemed dramatic and quite threatening. It seemed that the Duma magical wolf cubs were about to call for an indignant howl to the aid of adults, and they would clean the fangs with joyful rumbling with the compassionate remnants of Russian freedom of speech.
Other options were poorly visible. Well, yes, the boys pulled out the word “prostitution” from the context and grabbing tenaciously for him as an occasion to deal with an annoying newspaper, while protecting their girls from dirty insinuations. Yes, it is impossible to cling to the article legally (although there is little impossible for our court), but - immorality! But - soullessness! But - where is the journalistic ethics! The filthy scribblers were wolf, the people are tired of you! Well, then - “we should still see who the true customers are”, and here is the tax, and the prosecutor’s office, and other pleasures. And for especially lively and incomprehensible, some victim of beating, or rape, or robbery, or any other cynical abuse, for which human rights activists, opposition journalists and other liberal bastards, can be materialized from the bushes.
If you want, if you, but by goodwill, you will admit sincerely in everything, you yourself will take off all your own and give it to good hands.
V.V. After all, Putin never sympathized, and most importantly, never respected the journalist. I was always sure that those who are not sold right away, simply fill up their price. Always, and not to say, so that without reason, he considered them a jaw. Carious, fed and impudent, until you click a whip. And the freedom of speech as a principle, as the absolute value, Putin never appreciated. The very thought that with this good one should be rushed with, as with a written store, has always aroused one, but a strong feeling - a sense of humor.
Therefore, it seemed obvious that ceteris paribus, being confronted with a choice: Duma, i.e. He, a personal thought or some newspaper-he will not think for a long time.
But I thought. And even more than that - he pulled away.
This is his own Duma, and most importantly, Putin, apparently, does not put his own in a penny, and MK is a national newspaper, and Pavel Gusev, its owner is an absolutely systemic figure. Not Navalny. And to pick it out, to cut it out with a roar from this system, to arrange a Bartholomew’s night in the Moscow press in the manner of leaving NTV only because someone called someone by prostitutes, even with political-to put it mildly, more expensive. A purely elephant in a bowl shop, with all the honest people, with extremely unpleasant rating consequences.
The Duma wolf cubs, having demanded reprisals with MK for what, because of the case that the eggs are not worth it, violated the silence and peace of the authorities with their squeal. They were mistaken. They took a lot of themselves. And the authorities do not want to move a finger for them. Offended - calm down. Nothing. They carry water to the offended.
Of course, without Putin, i.e. Without the administrative-silage resource of the Lord Isaev and Zheleznyak, not only “MK”, but the newspaper “Pulse Tushino” will not be put on their knees. But they have one tool of considerable caliber, and they are ready to threaten the whole country with this weapon, like North Korea to the whole world with a nuclear bomb.
They are not just like that, they adopt laws.
Recently, they have taken their fashion to use their constitutional function in personal showdowns. Law as a revenge. Posner said something wrong-he was a bill on journalists with foreign passports. It resolved with Pozner - the bill died.
Now Gusev has distinguished himself - getting a legislative initiative, personally in his hands: let the tax benefits apply only to those print media that will prove their social orientation. And go prove her, this social orientation, did anyone see her in the eye? So, this is who the bosses will say, that is the orientation. Are there any questions?
Of course, this is completely not enough to take revenge on Pavel Gusev, however, it will probably come down to the girls to agree that they stood up for them.
But so it is so, but God protects the banned. And while the court and the case of the Congress of Journalists of Moscow is obliged to ensure P.N. Gusev is monolithic support. How it, apparently, will happen.