Time will punish

“The meeting place” cannot be changed, but you can change the host right on the air

He who at least once saw this will never forget: as a leading talk show like a countess from Ilf and Petrov with a “changed face” runs from the studio, after which the ether is interrupted for a short while. And the viewer is waiting for the continuation in the Harmsov style when the girl comes out and announces: “Tok-show closes. We are all sick. "

But no. Do not wait. The current show should continue. “This is a“ meeting place ”that cannot be changed, but you can change the host,” Alexander Gurnov joked the public, who had before sitting on the guest rostrum and, in general, has nothing to do with NTV. And then, after another advertising pause, the full -time employee of NTV Ivan Trushkin (and this is all for one issue!).

The permanent presenter Andrei Norkin, despite the promise of Alexander Gurnov, did not appear either after literally a few minutes, either the next day or two days later.

He seemed to evaporate. Gone without a trace. Fans in social networks closed the alarm: where is he, our favorite?

Urgently return it to the air, otherwise we will not watch the “meeting place” anymore.

The NTV remained silent for two days, and only on April 4 in the service of public ties explained what happened by the poor health of the host, adjusting which he would return, but for now, the NTV journalist Ivan Trushkin will be to keep the meeting place.

So what happened on the live broadcast of the socio-political talk show, whose midst of which the host was sharply bad? But what. On April 2, they discussed how they have, Ukrainian elections and the disappointment of the West in their results. The name of the release-“time will punish”-shamelessly borrowed from a brilliant parody of the current show of the first channel “Time to tell”, shown in the Comedy Club program on the TNT channel.

At about the fifteenth minute, Norkin gave the floor to the journalist Sergei Loiko, and contrary to the general revealing rag declared with all the directness: “The Maidan is not someone’s project. This is not a political party or movement. This is not even an uprising or riot. This is a state of mind of a free man who proved that in the post -Soviet country, in the so -called underbelch of the Soviet Union or Russia, the successor of the Soviet Union, where President Putin the successor of Stalin, in this Ukraine, the power may belong to the people. Maybe the people made a mistake (a large one is seen at a distance), but they have the right to do so. This is what is based on what distinguishes a free person from a slave. In this studio, in this country, this will never understand, and you do not know what freedom of spirit is. ”

Loiko himself described this that at that time was going on in the studio: “They screamed, howled, laughed, yelled ... At the command of the producers, the audience tried to cross me. I had to get up to turn to everyone ... It was difficult to speak ... The host constantly commented on my text and tried to interrupt. "

Actually, Andrei Norkin with “wrong” guests of the program usually does not stand on ceremony: he immediately asks for an exit, and if someone resists, he can push out of the studio, and can kicks.

And to threaten that in case of disobedience the “violator of the Convention” “shaking bloody snot” (it was in such expressions that he recently expelled from the air of journalist Alexander Nikonov).

It is difficult to imagine, but “merciless to the enemies of the Reich” Norkin is also a thin artistic nature. In his free time, time travels in cities and weights with concerts, at which he reads works of satirics and sings. As a rule, he acts on clubs and restaurants, and in mid -March he significantly increased his artistic status, having mastered the legendary small hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. According to eyewitnesses, the hall was full, and many spectators smiled when he dragged on the “evening song” of Solovyov-Sedo with the words “Listen, Leningrad, I will sing you a sincere song”.

And after the performance, Loiko Norkin seemed to be confused. Stared at the floor. Apparently, listening to the instructions of the editors came from his headphones. It is not known for certain what was demanded of him: to drive Loiko, to plug seditial speeches at all costs, otherwise ... that it will be “otherwise”, he voiced himself, mumbled: “I don’t like it because I want to work here, continue to work.”

Yes, and the carbonary, although he sat in place, but added oil into the fire: "Andrey, did you decide to quit work after that?" The poet’s soul could not stand such impudence, and he fled from the studio, thereby creating an amazing precedent: the leading, main face of the program, its commander leaves the battlefield in protest, after which the command is assumed by the first people who came to hand. Logical: they have no irreplaceable. Therefore, if you dare not to fulfill the order, no one will change the place of the meeting, but this will not be a meeting with you. However, not all the propagandists have iron. This is Skabeeva with Popov - young and gambling, they obviously show their power over the guests in a buzz, screaming individual rebellious ones - like a Gozhozhi or "Yablik" Nikolai Rybakov. This is Soloviev, even if he was no longer young, but he didn’t lose excitement, having toned in mocking over the regulars of his talk show.

Sometimes it seems that they are not people at all, but robots. Norkin broke.

Many pity him. They write in social networks:

“You are like sailors on the front line, every day on the air, inhuman load, dill, all stripes are ulcerated and fidgeted, and you have to, reducing the cheekbones, talking to them as with people ... knowing your business, competent, correct, with a magnificent sense of humor, journalist. I especially like it in him, which does not tolerate insults either to his address or Russia, and does not give anyone a descent ... "

You can only marvel once again how diverse and intricate in people the perception of those TV presenters, of which they chose to their idols.

The broken "colleague" and the outrage of the calm Sergey Loiko regretted. I wrote on my Facebook:

“Sorry, Andrey ... In fact, I have nothing to do with it. It just coincided. It is very difficult to lead such a show. This must be generated every day and let the streams of lies through yourself. The leading people are also people (except for the Skabyevs and Shein, perhaps) and break from this faster than ordinary people. Andrei once worked at the old NTV, was smart, witty, honest. Then he adapted. And now he has broken. I sincerely wish him health. ”

We join the wishes. The name of the fatal output-“time will punish”-turned out to be prophetic in its own way. This is how it happens.

PS

Starting the next issue, Ivan Trushkin reproached social networks and agencies in the information “war” against NTV for supposedly almost the “fifth column” of Norkin. “Do not invent what is not,” said. Yes, you can’t imagine this on purpose. Scandalous release in the public domain. And then judge for yourself.