Good girl Lena

Elena Milchanovsk from the “interlocutor”, who in December, who recognized Putin in love , is primarily recalling another people's journalist - light from Ivanov, who was recently sent to an honorary link . They are about the same age, both are hunting for stars (Lena leads the heading “Lena General”) and represent the latest generation of Russian journalism. Comparing them, you seem to find yourself in the space of the film “Back to the Future”, where one movement-and the whole bulky story goes differently.

Lena is the best light from Ivanov. Firstly, Lena is still a metropolitan little thing, in addition, from an intelligent family-it is customary to say that when dad and mother with higher education (Lena herself gives links to Facebook parents, this is Very Sweet ). This partly explains the success of Lena: you immediately remember that the best images of folk heroes in our cinema were created precisely by intellectuals.

Lena went on than Sveta: the other day she reached Prime Minister Medvedev . Last year, it was her question that Putin could become the most striking event of a four -hour meeting with journalists - if he had not blocked the news of Khodorkovsky. The only thing that embarrasses is Lena to “study at the Moscow journalism factory”, as a foreigner would say. Her speech and manners are somewhat contrast with our idea of ​​journalistic education; However, even in the ethical code of the journalist it is not said that you can not go at a press conference with a plush bear. But seriously, then the secular chronicle, who had already taken out Putin and took a picture with Medvedev, is a cool result. By the way, by journalistic standards, Lena’s greatest luck is “Ha ha ha” Alexei Kudrin ; This is the most bold statement by Kudrin in recent years.

All her friends and colleagues say that "Lena is like that in life." And, by the way, she is a patriot of the “interlocutor”: she tells everyone that he was the first color newspaper in the USSR.

It is symbolic that the newspaper, which has 30 years old this year, came out just in the framework of the “humanization of the USSR” - when officialdom became so dead that even fading elders felt it. “Truth” and other newspapers were already impossible to read, and it is pointless. And then just such a newspaper “for young people” appeared, where the texts of the songs of Yuri Antonov and the photograph of the youngest Soviet general and twice hero Dzhanibekov were printed.

Why the second bottom, when and the first superfluous? ..

It is symbolic that the face of the “interlocutor” in the anniversary year was not Dmitry Bykov, who was here, he began to write the famous texts in rhyme, but a girl with a plush bear. For which, the worse she formulated the question, the finally it was better - as for the popularization of the newspaper as a whole.

In all this there is no game and double bottom, this is the specifics of the time: why is the second bottom, when the first superfluous? .. The whole conscious life of Lena went through Putin, and she treats the president and the prime minister as we are - to Pugacheva and Kirkorov. She understands that the best that can be done with them is a selfie and that at a meeting with Vladimir Putin it doesn’t care what question to ask. Lena, in essence, reflects in the same way as a liberal journalist who calls these meetings a performance; Only unlike Liberal Lena in this performance is cool - there you can sing a song or tell a poem.

My colleague sees Lena by the future leader of the Russian Tomorrow news agency. And for example, I see her leading show named after myself, as it is now fashionable, “Milchanovsk”. Lena has the universal set of qualities that are today for a successful career in journalism: a combination of naivety, openness and cheerfulness. This is a true strategy also because rational approaches to reality, like 30 years ago, were exhausted, only irrational ones remained - like, for example, vuduist rituals or love spell. Lena does not hide that she was slightly tossing when she was looking for Dmitry Peskov’s eyes, but there was no “empathy” between them - but it turned out with the president.

“... And at that moment, when he looked around the hall, I managed to meet with him (that it was extremely difficult for me with my poor vision) and whisper:

- And what about my bear, he is real, he also wants to ask ...

“Well, well, I’ll ask your bear, now, I’ll definitely ask,” the president whispered, looking at me.

- Exactly? I asked from excitement.

“Yes, of course,” he confirmed in a whisper. ”

“Bear wants to ask” is a miracle. Lena herself has nothing to blame. Read, she writes how she was preparing for the meeting .

“Mom took away the most beautiful, to her taste, my sweaters, but they were all, as luck would have it, some incomprehensible tones-either gray, or brown, or swamp color. After all, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who usually leads this event, can not say: “Let the girl ask the question in an incomprehensible color of the jacket.”

Jung would say that in fact, Lena was going to meet with the “spiritual spouse” - so she should not wear a dress, but a wedding veil, and so, by the way, would be more noticeable.

There is the concept of “soul”, but here is a “push”. Lena has a push. Such as she write on Facebook: “I sit with my feet on the couch, wrapped in a fluffy blanket, with a mug of aromatic hot tea in their hands” - and their texts always have a smell of fresh buns. "Nothing, getting more fun together!" - The Prime Minister Medvedev answers in the last text of the Milchanovskoye, and in this phrase the rings of a new good journalism are heard - by analogy with the “good movie” (the term Anton Valina). Journalism of the children's, animated, intimidating - analogue of the hollow canon of the newspaper Pravda, 1984.

Without jokes - Lena does a very important thing. The more soulless the system, the denser it needs to be covered with plush bears. The same is probably sitting in the back seat in the judge of the “swamp case” or the daughter of the head of the colony, where the prisoners are forbidden to go to the toilet as an informal punishment. And this does not cause any dissonance, especially cognitive.