"Smell - you will get into the first"

What the audience of the main federal channels did not learn about

There was once on TV the program “Time”, conceived as a kind of antipode “Time”. Each of her release began with the words: “Today you will not learn that ...” Further followed by the announcements of the plots, which the audience just had to see and which, unlike the frivolous seemingly “time”, never showed a large and serious “time”.

Today, perhaps, it is just right to start (even in the newspaper, even on the Internet) separately - in the manner of the “time” who had deceived in Bose - the heading: “What the audience of the main channels of the country did not learn about.”

In former times, they said: "If the event was not shown on TV, then it was not there." The march of memory of Boris Nemtsov, who held in Moscow and a number of cities of Russia, amicably ignored the information programs of all federal channels. For the first time so frankly and so solid. And ask them - why, they will say that this is not censorship, but their own and completely independent information policy. "We have the right."

Previously, marches and rallies of the opposition are still at least somehow, and covered on the "large" channels. He arrives, say, at the place of collection of “oppositionists” an hour and a half before the start of the event, Olga Skabeev with a crew. Removes the framework for passage, which are empty. “Here is an extra evidence of the unpopularity of such marches among the people,” she comments something like this, without hiding gloating.

Then, as people appear, the operator grabs the faces of the most exotic characters, banners with incomprehensible symbols: "Marginals, what to take from them." Noticing famous persons, gradually arriving at the march, the correspondent rushes to them with a request to comment on what is happening. Leonid Parfenov (I remember this expressive frame) squeamishly removes the microphone from himself and turns away. “These people are afraid to speak on the camera because they can’t even explain why they are here,” the Golden Feather of Russia is torn.

Having finally recorded the “tail” of the column after the official completion of the march (“According to law enforcement agencies, less than 5,000 thousand people took part in the opposition’s shares, which indicates the decline in protest movement in the capital”), the film crew is returned to their native Penators, where, after installation, the plot of the plot is commented on by the exposure of information broadcasting: well, a little, a little Muscovites went to the boulevards on their weekend, and those that came out just walked with pleasure in the spring (winter, summer) capital, which created huge problems for most citizens who were forced to go around the blocked center of the city or stand in traffic jams.

This time, federal television channels acted much easier. They did not notice the event at all, which means that he was not there.

The main news of the past Sunday was Shrovetide and mass folk festivals with pancakes and burning a scarecrow symbolizing the end of winter. Even Dmitry Kiselev, a master of sophisticated mockery over various kinds of “malakhny”, did not say a word about the action of thousands of people in the center of Moscow, in St. Petersburg and other cities of the country.

Imagine how surprised the audience of the Tok Show “First Studio” on Channel One, when on Monday, on the day of memory of Boris Nemtsov, the presenter of Artem Sheinin during the next conversation about Ukraine suddenly mentioned some kind of opposition’s action, where incomprehensible people unknown why they were shaking with Ukrainian flags (photos with flags were attached). "Why do people go with Ukrainian flags on the Russian march?" He was perplexed. “Because the murder of Nemtsov and what is happening in Ukraine divided the country into two unequal parts according to the principle of perfect meanness,” the permanent participant in the current-show from the liberals Grigory Amnuel tried to break through through the cries of “patriots”, but he sutured as usual.

And Sheinin, having demonstrated another photo taken on the march of memory, was indignant at the poster with the inscription: "We are not opposition, we are the people." “In Ukraine, people who also believed that they were not an opposition, but people arranged this,” he raised against the background of personnel from the Maidan.

And then, looking point blank at the liberals, the director Karen Shakhnazarov exploded: “Do you really understand that you have no chance in this country at all? He almost shouted. - You discredit the concept of the opposition in general. I have the right to speak on behalf of the people, but you do not have ”(which is why he has such a right, but Amnuel does not have him, the director Shakhnazarov did not explain, and Shein did not specify. Axiom). Ultimately, the presenter, together with the support group, sang praise of boundless freedom of speech on the First Channel (and Putin personally), which allows you to argue about everything in the world - unlike obscurantist Ukraine, where neither similar open discussions, nor even the opposition’s march under Russian or New Russian flags, it is impossible to imagine.

The fact that on the night after the march, exactly on the day of Nemtsov’s memory, was again cleaned from the flowers and portraits of the Big Moskvoretsky bridge on which the murder occurred, the audience neither the most free in the world of the Channel One, nor its other brothers, of course, did not recognize. As they did not find out that on Sunday, the opposition activist Ildar Dadin was finally released.

However, why report on the release if nothing was reported either about his arrest, or about the sentence, nor about the torture that he was subjected to in the colony?

And the REN TV channel, which shortly before the decision of the Supreme Court, issued plots that discredit Ildar Dadin and his wife, will have to be explained not with the audience, but with the public collegium on complaints about the press. Or do not have to - you can simply give a damn about this collegium and its decision. They wanted Ren TV the best, but it turned out as always: they got into. It doesn’t matter. It is better to overdo it than to not be unable, and the homeland will appreciate it.

The many hours of the journalist and human rights activist Zoe Light, the more did not receive the attention of the “federals” - you think, “an ordinary routine investigative event”. There is news and more important. “Smell-you will get into the first,” Alexander Galich once sang. Here they are in the “firsts”.

And only small rain television channels and RBC were poured for all their “colleagues”, with dignity and fully illuminating all those events that ignored the giants of the television industry behind their obvious “insignificance”. Direct inclusions, television devices, interviews with the main defendants in the events-Zhanna Nemtsova, Ildar Dadin, Zoya Light, the creators of the film “Too Free Man” by Vera Krichevskaya and Mikhail Fishman, a demonstration of fragments that were not included in their film, showing the film by Vladimir Kara-Murza the Nemes himself and programs with the participation of Boris Nemtsov himself-all this is like this as it were. The audience returned to glorious times, when the news was “all” profession, and the silence of important public events was considered a relic of a difficult propaganda past and unacceptable professional sin.

“I fully experienced a feeling of failure into the past today,” admitted in the program “Hard Day, S Night” at the “rain” Lyudmila Ulitskaya, who came to the entrance of Zoe Sveta during the search to support a colleague and girlfriend. You can’t say more precisely.