The brilliance and poverty of Belarusian television personalities
Belarusian television, for all its pomposity, looks strained. It’s like “taksama, yak usa”: screensavers flash, operators move cameras, studio interiors sparkle with high-tech... But the result is “plasticity” and parochialism. And diligent presenters only increase the feeling of emptiness.
The rhetoric of many television announcers has now become one-sided - openly anti-Russian: “Russia is multiplying fakes,” “Russia is misrepresenting,” “brothers don’t act like that,” etc. A synchronized “attack” on the Russian media, on the “Kremlin towers”, passed off as a “response”.
A certain Azaryonok pompously proclaims that “everyone envy our country because we have a leader who is not broken by an unprecedented information storm.” There is a leader, but who creates the information storm?
It’s a shame for a certain Krivosheev, who signs his unwatchable videos “Fake Ros News.” The said TV guy impudently recommended that his Russian colleagues “tease their imperial ego in self-isolation.” A sort of peasant boasting.
Listen, but this is just creepy. Okay, the Head of our state, to put it mildly, is not an example of impeccable phrase construction: his common people’s statements have long become part of political folklore. Ordinary people, hearing yet another “non-daring thing,” just grin. (It’s the radical Nazis who go into hysterics at that moment, but for the majority of the population this is just a new topic for gossip during a smoke break.) But the frenzy with which yesterday’s refined teleplankton suddenly threw up anti-Russian hysteria is simply disgusting.
I suggest we look at how, in the words of the president, for example, the aforementioned Krivosheev “splutters”.
“Let’s say that it was not the Kremlin who ordered the media cough in the direction of Minsk,” the guy broadcasts from the blue screen. Those. he knows for sure (and everyone should know!) what exactly “the Kremlin ordered,” but he seems to suggest that it is not so.
Here's another. “It turns out that it’s three in one. First, Operation Despair: it’s supposedly absolute hell in Belarus. Next comes the operation “Force to help”: they’ll take it, they won’t go anywhere. And at the end of Operation Absorption – Anschluss instead of an equal union.”
Does the guy understand what he's talking about? Moscow is allegedly trying to sell us aid in order to then carry out the Anschluss. And how, one might ask, is the rhetoric of a peasant from the state-owned BT different from the openly nationalist media that exists on Western grants and howls day and night “they will seize, they will seize”?
Are the Belarusian TV personalities, these guardians, interpreters and justifiers, not aware that it is they who are stirring up hysteria, they are the ones who are creating the “unhealthy atmosphere”, they are the ones who are “spitting” and casting a shadow on the Union State, on the union of our countries? Where does so much hatred towards Russia come from?
Where is the confident, intelligent, calm and balanced rhetoric? Where are the smart, deep and authoritative analytics? Where are the facts, instead of emotions and “attacks”? Where has journalistic professionalism, expressed in decent persuasiveness, gone?
And now there are calls for punishment of those information communities that have an opinion “different from.”
Publicist Terekh openly calls for “bringing in the stern Moloch of state ideology” in relation to a real doctor who expressed his own understanding of the situation with coronavirus in the country on his account. The publicist, it should be noted, specifically threatened the mentioned doctor with appealing to the prosecutor's office.
This is what we have. Tereh named the state ideology after the biblical deity to whom children were sacrificed.
Since Belarusian ideological officials did not hold the publicist accountable and did not even threaten him with the prosecutor’s office, a lot of questions arise. For example, can everyone now call the ideological state apparatus “the demon of sacrifice” or is it only permissible for this particular publicist?
But Terekh went further. He calls for punishment for the "outrageous perpetrators of this rampant hysteria." "Punish, punish, and punish again," demands the indefatigable publicist. Apparently, according to a scheme only he understands—who will judge whom, and by what criteria.
However, it is unlikely that the Terekha-like lovers of punitive raids will turn their attention to the Torticoleck-like instigators of hysterics.
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