| Trivial Fiction
| Surv! V0r, 2001
Declaration of a democratic society in itself as a promise
nichego not stand. We used to believe the beautiful words, but
in deeds to believe why it is not accepted. Meanwhile, do not
always improve the law leads the improvement of society.
Sometimes, the society does not notice his lack of freedom in a
free press.
I am not a journalist, but by creating its own electronic
edition carried away just in journalism, I can not share some
their observations.
The abundance of the official newspapers, tabloids, or as it is
more euphonic name, popular, popular literature is nice. A
closer look, the majority of the class serving the "general
public" confession is a symbol of faith: "The reader is stupid,
he wants to be led by the nose." I will try to do without
specific names, each decides for himself in than this is true.
A rule that I cited does is not rejected as unfair. Is not
rejected even by those intellectuals who claim to knowledge of
man and society in a variety of measurements.
I am a supporter of freedom of speech, but when that freedom
navyayvaet patterns of behavior, it is not whether there is a
strain of human feelings and actions, the deformation itself
wishes, finally, his personality?
Psychologists have long been thinking over the problem of
processing brain the reader through the media. The highest peak
of newspaper articles, television programs of this nature
reaches during rotation of representatives of the top. And
that's when people think that He knows what he wants, while he
wants to, what was demanded of him. It is noticed even in his
time, Erich Fromm, the famous western sociology.
Market dictates prvila. Extracting profits from the mash-up of
secular gossip, rampant advertising necessary and unnecessary
items, some mystical nonsense and malicious fabrications, some
publishing houses knowingly condemn the readers to the very
low-calorie, although fairly spicy diet.
Media furiously competing with each other for profit. Any
information can be bought and sold. Even in Soviet times,
criticism of bourgeois ideology, have noticed that the portrait
of Western society can be expressed in five words: "Scandal,"
sensation " "Fear," "sex", "death." The typical score for a
five-point scale - from the scandal before his death, through
fear, sex and sensation. AND What we see now? We in Russia?
Endless sea of free opinion, propaganda lzhetsennostey,
cultivating irrational opinions ... pulling a button on the TV
remote and off the intrusive ads.
It would be an unforgivable mistake to believe that the tabloid
news, all these sensational reports about expensive weddings
and scandalous divorce priestess pop scene, incredible actors
and unprecedented looting, competing mafias and brutal
killings, gossip and rumors fill the daily pages of the set
the most popular newspapers and weeklies - that all this
"Funny" and "fascinating" reading is a way to kill time and
fun? And, although the moral value of this kind of filling
leisure time requires a very particular characteristics, it
would be not so bad.
The trouble also is that it is marked above the range of topics
acknowledged masters of the media the most effective drug
capable of when used in large doses to make spiritually
immature, politically immature masses into obedient human herd,
chewing gum daily mimics ideology.
Young people, especially older people, believe that Bourdieu
which is splashed on TV screens, the pages of periodicals.
Blind faith in the credibility of the media is playing into the
hands those who for their own gain informs the reader about his
achievements.
The main thing in the tabloid press - a flashy headline. Each
room sensation on the first page, the title-sold-out! So what
is this sensation? Entire pages detailing the stunning
toilets, or the countless details of amorous adventures of one
or a movie star, or for the umpteenth time tells of Technology
loud robbery. Oh, it's probably really care about people
more than the next price increase living standards and increase
payment of utilities, perhaps it is even more interesting than
Russia's demographic crisis or a problem with the import of
nuclear waste?
So many in fact as the most vital for the masses
Readers topic simply pushed aside, as if removed from
consideration. In this case, educated directed, very far from
the genuine needs and concerns of interest to readers,
encourage them narrow-minded curiosity, readers are trained to
look into the "keyhole", admire the richness and luxury to
savor juicy details ...
Given all of these generalizations of the certificate, we must
conclude that the consumer information that has access to
numerous channels of transmission is actually very little
informed of the truth. It is clear that not always the truth is
preferable to lies, but there lies more harmful than that which
we deceive ourselves.
People do not get any serious, dokumentalnostrogogo, informed
report on the status of interest his areas of society, with few
exceptions, both within our country and abroad. So obazom his
attempt to socially disorienting, and ultimately make it
impossible to take any action to improve their situation.
And the lion's share of the work is performed by the press -
print and electronic maid monopolies. Why is the power of the
press directly proportional to the naivete of its customers.
