Can journalism be neutral?

Speaking shortly, it can. But it won’t be.

Because journalism is being formed by people with different views, interests and level of corruption.

Any media is a tool of persuasion for someone’s interests.

The media lie and lie often, lie a lot.

In our country, 95% of the media are controlled by the state, so it is not surprising that lies are prospering around.

Russia is a country of lie. Lie is all around: we lie to each other, at work, to the government and so on.

Lie has become a norm of behavior everywhere, no exaggeration.

The current Russian state-controlled media use techniques of Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda of the Third Reich.

To check it very easy — you just need to turn on any TV channel and see what they say.

I don’t watch TV, but it still surrounds me, because almost any institution where I can be in the afternoon has a TV, and it shows one of the federal channels.

News or daytime shows — it doesn’t matter, everywhere they say about the same things: Russia is humiliated, America wants to destroy us, there are fascists in Ukraine, the Crimea is ours, we are a great country. And all of this is said with aggression to those ones who disagree.

If there are doubts about the Crimea-you are the enemy of Russia.

If you don’t agree about America — you are an enemy of Russia and an American spy.

If you don’t think that Putin’s course is right one — get out of the country!

That’s how we live.

And all this we have every day, I repeat, every single day the media, which are controlled by the state, pour bullshit into the ears of people.

Do I consider this as a journalism?

Of course, not.

This is pure propaganda!

But the total majority around me believes in what they say on TV.

Under Putin, the government either killed a private TV, or subdued under their control.

The same thing happens with the print media — there are almost no independent ones from the state, and their audience is too small.

At the end of last week, one of the independent magazines was fined (I am assured that was illegal) in the amount of 22 million rubles, that for Russia is an exorbitant amount and, actually, means the death of this magazine.

In other countries, as far as I know, the situation with the media is different and depends on the development of countries.

For example, in the United States I see a huge number of medias that somehow adhere to certain views.

There are pro-trump media such as “Fox news”, there are anti-trump media such as “Washington Post”, there are many other media with different approaches to the coverage of events.

And I’m sure the more media, the better, because there is a choice.

When there is a lot of media around, in the struggle for the reader’s attention and traffic, every normal media tries to submit information with something new to show its authority.

There is an opportunity to analyze different points of view, study documents, think and make your own point of view.

A good journalist helps to work one of the most important fundamental human rights — the right to information.

So I am supporter to the point of view that in the world it is necessary to have many media and choice.

And there is nothing worse than to live this life not on your own way, but by the will of another person.