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– Do I have a vocation to become a journalist? As it is, for example, the case with poets? Or journalism can be learned?
– I have two answers to this question. In general, we do fairly simple things. Nothing special, we do not. Journalists are different in that they do poorly. Write bad, because there are special people who write well – they are called writers, journalists shoot too bad, yes. Last time, the experience of writing texts on social networks shows that it is quite strange, strange people can suddenly become terribly popular, mass media, and even literacy it does not really need. It turns out that if you have a flair for public inquiry, it is the talent of the modern journalist. And it’s terrible (laughs). Because people often do not write what they think, not what to learn, understand, and what is expected of them.
– Today, bloggers and the media – about the same thing. Is a popular blogger does the same job as a journalist?
– Blogs are different from the media a complete lack of any kind was a system of verification of facts. The newspaper, for example, is supposed to be a system faktchekinga, which is more or less decided to trust. There is no way to distinguish truth from falsehood in the Internet. It is not to such an extent that no one not even tries to distinguish. They know in advance who will say that, because there are the predefined position. It is important to shout it first, and then everything will have “laykat”. Work blogger – the first to cry out some banality. At the same time it is important banality because unbanal not like a lot of people. The profession of journalist, as I remember it, was to find some fact. Suggest some of his explanation, not previously known. And in this sense, of course, journalists and bloggers are completely different people. But apparently there is no difference between them. And so the journalistic profession is destroyed completely. If unchecked fact sold as well as a proven, why then their check? With this nothing can be done. And it will be impossible to do, as long as the Internet appears some mechanism, how to distinguish truth from falsehood. While it is not.
– In a lecture on “rain” you said that by using hatred is easier to achieve popularity. As it is, for example, does Navalny. I will write only about bad or there is a place for good conversation?
– The world became absolutely unbearable. In the foreseeable future it will spread or to hell, or people somehow change their attitudes. For example, consider a friendly divorce. People who love each other, suddenly start with terrible force each other to hate. If they are normal people, they have the relationship after breaking fold. Here’s what you need to do and what changes need to go – not very clear, but it is absolutely clear that to live in this atmosphere of hate in which we live now, is absolutely impossible. Either we tear each other, or we somehow agree. After the October Revolution of 1917 in the breakaway from the Soviet Union in Finland took place civil war, during which 30% of the population was destroyed. The remaining 70% with surprise looked at it and began to live a normal life. That is how it will be, I do not know, but either will be found some way to talk, not based on hatred, or we will kill each other.
– The question is: why did you decide not to leave the profession, and still stay in it, but to write on other topics?
– Charity – is the only area where you can do something. Correct the world. We started with the fact that journalists are generally poorly written, poorly filmed. The only thing that they are doing well – it’s influence. We live in a situation where the impact on policy – it is impossible, on the economy – it is impossible, on the laws – it is impossible for the courts – it is impossible. However, in 1998, the year, for example, children suffering from blood cancer, died in Russia in 98% of cases, and now only 25%. And we did. Not only I, but I was the one who did it. Approximately 4000 children each year, which in the 90s and before dying, is now recovering. I have to do with it. I have a feeling that I have made the world better. That’s the thing, which is much more interesting to do. You get something.
– In one of his publications on the “Snob” you wrote that he considers himself “downed pilot”. Why is “shot down”?
– You’re doing sensationalism first, then you get some columnist, columnist, editor or your name somewhere. And you do an old man a job where you have to run less, but think more. My girlfriend, Katia Gordeeva, went to the US and suddenly saw there alive Bob Woodward. I arrived quite stunned, because it’s like Pushkin meet. And Bob Woodward is alive and well, he’s on some important positions. Very respected. And Watergate … when was it? 60? …
– Start of the 1970s.
– Yes. He was, it turns out, is now about 70. And you do not call Russia in any 70-year-old journalist, who continued to act. All those who were journalists in the ’70s -‘ 80s – they’re gone. And their expertise is not being used in any way. All the people who worked as a journalist in the 90s – they left … Venediktov, perhaps. No one else! And they have something to know how to know. Sergei Parkhomenko, a wonderful editor, Andrei Vasilyev, general genius. But the fact remains that the best media manager Andrey Vasilyev does not exist any work. As Sergei Parkhomenko. It conducts some transfer to the “Echo”, but its main feature is that it is the editor. And good. All the “downed pilots.” A generation younger than me, too, have lost their jobs because ALL. You can find exceptions, but the mere enumeration of the stars of journalism who are out of work, leads us to the obvious observation that there is something wrong. Leonid Parfyonov’s no work. Andrei Loshak no work. Ekaterina Gordeeva have no work. Oleg Kashin is no work. No one has a job. It is a simple system of deductions. If pilots so often cause, then there is a war. Because the crash peace sky happen, but it’s out of the ordinary event. When mow all, you know that we are in a state of war of all against all, and already want it to end. There is no longer any force.
– Is it worth it to go to learn the journalist or is it to get a classical education in the humanities, such as historical?
– Receive, as in boxing, is extremely small, they can be explained by an hour. And then they need to work, so I do not understand why journalists are taught. But I see that journalists do not have enough scary liberal education. As long as you explain some complicated thing, a man who wrote a simple tweet, already I beat you. So that’s the famous story with a question about the siege of Leningrad on “Rain.” This question is asked by people who know nothing about the blockade, people who do not know anything about the blockade. As a result, there are different stories, wildly popular, persecution, closing … And it’s all based on the total nonsense.
– What do you think of what to expect next? So it will only write about what they want to see? And will verify the information?
– Here the complete destruction and disintegration of the profession does not consider it? (Laughs). There are quite a lot of places where there is no journalism. No own information field. First thing – finding a certain reliability criteria. It is not clear how this reliability criterion is found. It is worth remembering Novgorod Assembly, when decisions are taken by force cry. But this noise once institutionalized. Somehow, it seems, there will be institutionalized. The second thing – the level of tolerance. While he will not, we will destroy each other, but one day he will, and those who will not be wiped out (laughs). I believe that journalism at that time very much changed. It would be some little thing recognizable. See how music has changed. When I was as old as you are now, the main music unit was the album. Plate. All! It’s not. All that fought, and now it does not matter. Almost the same thing is to be a journalist. There is something new about what we are and do not guess.
By author Anna Barsukova