Why do they put Baldy on TV?
Lately, on social networks and in real life, you often come across an indignant reaction from TV viewers, which can be expressed in the following words: “Why do they invite all kinds of Ukrokhunta windbags, all these Kovtuns, hacks, Voronins, Zaporozhye and other vile people who are on air and for money they shit on Russia, Crimea, Donbass and millions of Russian citizens?”
It comes to the point that, along with TV viewers, some presenters of analytical programs on TV and even State Duma deputies begin to be indignant, speaking with a single demand: “Stop feeding the enemies of Russia, provocateurs and parasites! With a hot broom!”
And in fact: maybe it’s enough to give a platform to all sorts of chthonic political leaders from Banderlog and fill the broadcast network with unhurried conversations of smart and good people? After all, according to some data, for just one appearance in the studio, the radish man Kovtun, who leads the rating of audience dislikes, receives a fee of 30-50 thousand rubles, and the “European-integrated” television guest workers Matseychuk and Koreyba - from 50 thousand, which is approximately equal to a monthly salary mid-level workers on the RTR TV channel.
Let's figure it out?
What lies on the surface. Everyone understands perfectly well that in the studio of Solovyov, Norkin, Gordon, Babayan there is a talk show, where the show is primary. What is the main feature of the show? Attract the attention of the TV viewer, and in the case of a talk show, also create the necessary difference in potential, an acute situation in the studio.
In addition, television has one funny property - to feel like a mega-expert to a person with popcorn and a remote control on the couch, answering all these operetta scoundrels much more meaningfully and wittily than the opponents invited to the studio.
As we can see, the presenters manage to create the difference in potential to the fullest: the audience is blazing with righteous anger and, in the end, demands that the bastards be kicked out of the studio and the country. Sometimes the difference in potentials reaches the point that Kovtun gets punched in the face by indignant TV viewers for his brazen red-haired rush to the camera, Norkin pushes the sad ovnoed Zaporozhsky out of the studio behind the rotten bazaar, and Babayan uses physical assault to calm down the overly excited young man Matseychuk.
Now let's put ourselves in the shoes of the bad guys. Is everyone ready to be in the place of a whipping boy on a salary? After all, a little man talking stubborn nonsense from TV, in addition to exposing himself as a complete degenerate and an asshole to the public, risks, as a bonus, getting a couple of slaps in the face from an angry TV viewer, and even takes on a significant charge of negative emotions.
To paraphrase the respected Dmitry “Goblin” Puchkov, such whipping boys act as “skillfully let down PR aces” who, with their stupidity, acquire megatons of mocking jokes and hatred for a small fraction.
Please note that the number of clowns involved in performances is strictly limited, and the public knows them first and foremost. Some carpet performers seem to be tired of constantly tumbling into the crosshairs of the rays in the circus arena, receiving rotten tomatoes from the audience instead of flowers and applause. That’s why Karasyov and the young, bug-eyed Baba Yaga Olesya Yakhno periodically disappear from the airwaves.
Personally, I consider the activities of the remaining Koreybs and Kovtuns to be very useful, although they require some material costs.
Why? Those who experienced the Soviet era at a conscious age, remember: all smart and good people talked to us from the screen. Instead of the moronic “House-2”, people were shown concerts of classical music and ballet, theatrical performances, documentaries and, in general, they sowed the reasonable, the good, the eternal.
And how much did this television culturalization help the country? Don't think. Most people, instead of watching TV, were building their lives and the life of the country, but when the Catastrophe came, respected comrades, TV viewers joyfully flattened their noses on the screens, listening to the “instructions” of the “psychotherapy” Kashpirovsky and charging cans of water to the din and conducting of the charlatan’s claws Chumaka.
And when Gorbachev’s “glasnost” grew into “freedom of the bazaar,” people gathered in crowds around destructive idiots and naturally stared at their mouths. I am already silent about the orgy of “democracy” organized by the central and republican television channels.
What is this for? And the fact is that the Soviet people, who were fed up with the good and constructive, felt the urge to try the crap out of the shovel. To spice it up, in a foreign way! But at the same time they turned out to be absolutely deprived of immunity to everything contained in the dirt. Many who survived the catastrophe of the 90s for some reason began to forget how it all began.
Now let’s imagine that in the Brezhnev USSR, in the department of Comrade Suslov, the figures responsible for propaganda and agitation suddenly went crazy and prepared to broadcast a talk show between smart, intelligent and able to conduct a dialogue Soviet patriots and representatives of the fifth column: Sakharov, Novodvorskaya Hypnotoads, Sergei Adamych Kovalev and similar personalities. How many ethers would it take for the people to recoil from the holy fools?
Remember that the people turned away from liberalism not only having had their fill of “market reforms,” but also having heard from TV what, for example, Hypnotoad called for during the first Chechen war.
Where did the joke “a personalized Mauser is awarded to FSB Colonel Novodvorskaya for discrediting the Russian liberal opposition” come from? Yes, from the fact that the late Hypnotoad deservedly earned this characteristic with her long tongue, and even with her extreme persistence.
Every joke is only part of a joke. In any case, no one has done more to discredit the fifth column than the fifth column itself. But once upon a time its representatives were taken quite seriously, not by the stupidest people, as “thinking reeds”, “conscience of the nation”, “masters of thoughts”, and on the wave of the “festival of disobedience”, literally on the hands of the crowd, rode into power, where conscientious and handshake, having reached a critical mass, they created such a huge pile of firewood that we will be raking for many years to come.
Maybe if the Politburo and the Central Committee had allowed dissida to grimace on the screen in time and throw out the muddy-brown contents of their shoulder asses under the questions and comments of smart people, then the systemic crisis that arose in the mid-80s would have been experienced by a single country without any major shocks, or even at all would there be no crisis?
Freedom of speech is one of the few gains that we got from the disaster of the 90s. The stubborn ones should be allowed to speak out so that all their stupidity and stupidity can be seen. Let them sit and shout, babble and mumble for a salary. In the end, Russia is never Bandera’s Ukraine, where, if not for the logos, it would be impossible to distinguish one TV channel from another: their content is so brown and monotonous. It would be better if the bosses of Russian TV shut down “Dom-2” and Petrosyanka jokes to hell and took up the quality of broadcast films and TV series.
It’s better to have a dozen paid clowns and whipping boys on your TV than to then clean up the “Maidans”, “swamps” and everything they mess up. It will be possible to send them to the trash heap only after the Bandera era in Ukraine ends. And it will even be possible to make an instructive show about how “heroes of European Ukraine, defending hydity on Russian TV,” change their political color on the fly.
Yes, and if anyone doesn’t know, “Professor” Koreyba was kicked out of MGIMO with toilet rags, and now he works as just an annoying talking head on Russian television.
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