Bone in the throat

"Vesti weeks" accused of rain of fraud and the spread of unverified rumors

Dmitry Kiselev and his colleague Pavel Zarubin found the main guilty in the Kemerovo tragedy - the Ukrainian pranker of Volnov, irresponsible bloggers who spread rumors and representatives of the liberal media, the most harmful of which, according to the “news of the week”, was the rain TV channel.

The best defense, as you know, is an attack. Exactly a week has passed since the terrible day when a fire, which took dozens of human lives, flashed in the Winter Cherry shopping center. On Sunday evening, on March 25, when the scale of the tragedy was already understood, Kiselev himself, cooled by the usual complacency, sang to Osanna to the triumph for 20 minutes, deafeningly won in the elections, then for 3 minutes distracted what was happening in Kemerovo and continued the program with diphrams against our new weapons, proposing his name for one of the Russian missiles: “peppers”.

A week later, he did not remember his own unprofessionalism and even blasphemy, determining the rain TV channel as a “boy for whipping”.

“In those moments when decent people seem to think about every word, some kind of, but still the rain TV channel arranges a cyclic retelling of the most terrible rumors on the air,” Pavel Zarubin in the plot called “Fraud” proceeded with indignation.

Meanwhile, the rain became one of the few Russian channels who, from the very beginning of the tragedy, without waiting for the declaration of mourning and the go -ahead from above, completely turned over the broadcasting net, canceled the entertainment programs and removed all the advertisements, opening the broadcast (usually accessible only to subscribers) for all spectators for all three days. And this despite the fact that the channel budget is made up only from the money of subscribers and small advertising money. “For us, this is not just the money, but the opportunity or not to work next month,” Natalya Sindeeva, head of the channel, wrote on her Facebook page. “But we didn’t think for a second whether to do this or not.”

“The presenter of the“ rain ”announced literally everything that came to hand,” Mikhail Kozyrev accused of “News of the Week”, who all three terrible days kept direct broadcasts on “rain”, sometimes with difficulty cope with tears.

In response to Vesti of the Week, Kozyrev himself wrote on his Facebook: “For three days I started every issue with what is known from official sources. And then an hour after an hour we included eyewitnesses, conducted a broadcast from a spontaneous rally in Kemerovo, consulted with experts and fire safety specialists, with managers and owners of shopping centers, psychologists and disasters medicine. We believed that our duty is like a television channel - to tell people what is happening, and thus relieve tension around this disaster ... What was happening on federal channels at that time? On the first day - nothing. Then, when the directives were lowered on top of how to give events, an enemy was found. Of course, they were not the mayor, not the governor, not the president. It turned out to be "enemies of the state." Bloggers, opposition and several independent media, including the Rain TV channel. It was a classic alphabet: so that popular anger does not turn against the system that made this tragedy, it must be directed to those who supposedly “swing the boat”, that is, “spreads unverified rumors”. So I got to the Vesti weeks.

It would seem that they, so powerful and omnipotent, to a small, long-expelled from the cable networks of the Rain television channel, which barely makes ends meet (those who expelled, took care of this)? However, for the "federals" he is like a bone in the throat. Apparently, “rain” reminds some of them that they were once knitting, that is, normal TV, adhering to professional standards, and not political conjuncture in their activities. Therefore, they fall on the “rain” with all their propaganda power to create from their targeted audience (among which, I am sure, the “rain” subscribers once or twice) the impression that a real enemy was dug up nearby, making himself “PR on the blood”.

“We, the state media, told the truth, and your liberal media weaved a lie,” Joseph Raichelgauz, who dared to grate something in defense of the “liberals”, was screaming at the Sunday air, also dedicated to the results of the “unprecedented information campaign” against the authorities and the state. “And these are not Buzoters, but the scum that needs to be planted.”

“I would like to say about the positive,” Mikhail Barschevsky brought a life -affirming note to this hysterical anti -libella choir. “Never before in such situations I had no such firm feeling that the state media tell the truth.”

The participants of the program with such fervor justified the state media and themselves, which, in general, was understandable: they all understand to themselves, but they really want to look in the eyes of the audience the only bearers of genuine truth. And everyone who is not with them is against them, and therefore against Russia and its national interests. Atu them!

However, as expected, the theme of Kemerovo on federal television channels by the beginning of the coming week almost came to naught. Although, it is probably worth it to separately thank the Russia channel for the fact that the anniversary evening of Vladimir Vinokur on the next weekend, and NTV was canceled (not forever, alas, due to inappropriate in the context of the tragedy) the “international sawmill” of Tigran Keosayan.

But the same NTV channel launched a new daily DNA show from April 2. “Any person who has fallen into a difficult life situation,” the announcement said, “can become the hero of the program and make this expensive test for free.” It is clear that the output of the program was planned in advance, and it is impossible to predict tragic events. But it did not occur to anyone on the channel to transfer the premiere for a couple of weeks in advance, if it was so tragically coincided that right now in Moscow there is a molecular genetic examination of the bodies of the burned-out in Kemerovo, and the relatives of the dead with the sinking of the heart expect its results. I will not be surprised, by the way, if they are offered to become heroes (victims) of a new show. They called relatives to talk shows dedicated to the Kemerovo tragedy.

And Malakhov on the “live broadcast” “generously” invited “the whole world” to find a new family of 11-year-old Seryozha Moskalenko, who lost his parents and sister in a fire.

And this despite the fact that the boy has two grandmothers who are not going to give their beloved grandson to anyone and who probably screamed with horror, hearing the Malakhovskoye - from a pure heart - a proposal.