Private trouble

We met with Kolya in Simferopol, specially phoned and made an appointment, old friends and fellow countrymen, both on a business trip. I am from the “satellite and pogrom”, he is from his television company, VGTRK, and now we met in the square near the monument to Lenin in front of the house of the Crimean government of the Government of the Government of the Government of the Government of the Government. Kolya in the “Bosco” sweater, naturally did not have time to change clothes, immediately from the Olympics to the Crimea. We exchange Crimean impressions. I am talking about Muscovites surrounding the new Crimean Prime Minister Aksenov, Kolya-about Cossacks, who for some reason dance a lezginka at night to music from a mobile phone. Kolya has a microphone without a logo and a plate on a minibus, also without a logo, a special set for working in Ukraine - they can beat Vesti for the logo; Kolya tells how he made reports from Lutsk - always behind the scenes and only on the last day, when he was already waiting for a taxi to the airport, he recorded a stand -up, because there is nothing to be afraid of, and then they call from Moscow - you stay in Lutsk for two days, and the face was shown on TV, and the “right sector” is not a day off - scary!

Kolya is good, Kolya is not propagandon, Kolya is not a jelly, Kolya is not a ghoul. The socio-political views of Kolya, as far as I know about them from his Facebook, do not contradict what he is doing on the air. Kolya is a journalist, he does his job well, from Crimea he will go to Donetsk, then maybe home to finally change clothes, then somewhere else. In Rostov at the press conference of Yanukovych.

I do not think that Kolya will notice how everyone is crying on the “tape” today, and I dare not condemn Kolya - this is not his loss. They finish off the “rain”, fired the chief edges of the “tape”, the Russian planet reporter is forced to publish its Crimean reports on the “Kolta”, even the unfortunate “AiF” was bought by Sobyanin structures - if you follow only these events, you can go crazy with horror caused by the circle of Russian press in its usual form. But you will take a step to the side-there Kolya in the “Bosos” is straightened from Crimea, and next to Lida with Rush Tuei sincerely laughs, finding another blunder in Barack Obama, and even further Sasha from RIA passes his exclusives about Crimean militias directly from her tablet. Spring, birds sing. TASS opens a new project for the Crimean audience, new jobs for journalists. It really seems to you that something terrible happens to Russian journalism? No, everything is in order with her, the ghouls of a unit, and the normal guys like my Kolya are hundreds, and they will always be all right, and they did not even read the last column of Revzin on the “tape”.

This seems to me the most important point. Putin does not destroy Russian journalism, no. Putin and his people first created his journalism, the face of which is just my Kolya, and not Kiselev at all, and only then, when each Ilya Azar already has ten correspondents of state media - only then, when it has no importance at all, began to seriously destroy the inconspicuous ones against the background of “Rush Tuei”, “Vesti” and other journalistic enterprises. You don’t have to deceive yourself, the tragedy of “tapes” is not a blow to journalism, but a private nuisance of several dozens of people from the “tape”, just like the defeat of Gazeta.ru was a private nuisance of her journalists, and my dismissal from Kommersant was mine and only my private trouble. No need to identify yourself with all Russian journalism. This is our troubles, not Russian journalism.

Well, yes, hello to everyone who laughed at Philip Dzyadko with his “fucking chain”, greetings to everyone who reasoned that Kovalsky with his ballot, of course, violated some norms of decency and got merit. Hello everyone who answered every journalistic sob that the journalist should not be an activist, and that you just need to do his job, and that both sides are always to blame for any production conflict. What can I say: friends, it is you (and not Putin, not Lesin, not Gorrevsky, not mummet) won - and accept, or something, congratulations.