Last New Year, a friend from Bulgaria came to see me, with whom we studied at Moscow State University back in Soviet times. He had not been to Moscow for many years, and when we gave him a tour of the city, his surprise and admiration knew no bounds. In Russian speaking, he was stunned.
I asked him: Isn't there reports from Moscow on Bulgarian TV? "They are showing," he replied, "but mostly political commentary from one place in the center."
Have you not paid attention to the fact that foreigners who come to us, at first behave very cautiously, as if looking closely at the surrounding reality? Like people who first got into the jungle, where they are trapped by unknown dangers.
In Soviet times, this was still understandable. KGB, surveillance, provocations and other delights of the Land of the Soviets, which they were told about from childhood. But what's the matter today? It seems that the USSR no longer exists, and the KGB does not follow foreigners.
In fact, nothing has changed. The weighted average European (not to mention the Americans) is stuffed around the clock with the same amount of myths and fakes about Russia as before. In a modern version, of course.
So they come, poor people, with a fog of fears and fears in their heads. Which, however, quickly dissipates after the first communication with us (not to mention a couple of glasses at the table).
Our official media quite often tells how the anti-Russian propaganda television machine works in the West.
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It so happened that a few of my youthful friends after the collapse of the country stayed to work abroad (some of them succeeded, some just survive). I conducted a small survey among them about the work of "zombies" in France and Italy. The answers can be summarized as follows:
But perhaps this only concerns us? After all, we are totalitarian aggressors who, at the call of a democratic conscience, simply need to be killed.
Not at all. When the performances of the "yellow vests" began, RT's rating in France skyrocketed. Why? Because it was the only TV company that objectively, in the opinion of the French, talked about what was happening. Remember the howl then started against RT, which the French authorities even wanted to shut down?
Here is the European zomboy in action.
Do Europeans understand this? Based on the responses of my friends abroad, the credibility of television has dropped lately. Perhaps, in part, because of the nonsense that it says about Russia, where the French travel quite often. But at the same time, mind you, no one in Europe calls to throw "propaganda" TV sets in the trash, as our young "petrels of freedom" do.
Yes, young people in Europe also watch less TV than the older generation. But not at all because of protest considerations - just the format of receiving information has changed (the TV news is too long for their perception).
Are the Western media freer in their coverage of domestic politics and criticism of the authorities than ours? Probably. However, judging by the massive anti-Trump hysteria on American television, this freedom is somehow very one-sided.
Output. Focusing on the democratic West, I suggest not throwing away the TV.
On it "Field of Miracles" show. And "Good night, kids."
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