From the Editor: What scares TV - Bulletin

Horror and pseudoscience in the media form the habit of the average person does not believe anyone

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Channel “started showing art serial « Cossack village “based on the events in the village Kushchevskaya ( in 2010 there there was a mass murder of 12 people), and showing the gangster lawlessness and a complete failure of the state in a particular locality. This would seem to contradict the purpose of propaganda. But television in Russia is not straightforward task.

channel « Russia” continues a series of pseudo-scientific and popular movies. The new film « Water. A new dimension, “repeats the fantastic claims that water remembers everything. The same it was in the intense criticism Commission to Combat Pseudoscience RAS movie « The Great Secret of Water» ( 2006). In the same series in 2009 was a film « Mold”, telling that all the wars and revolutions were caused by the mass poisoning of people by ergot.

spirituality, UFO stories and secrets of psychics devoted most of REN TV broadcasts. NTV television channel occupies a niche about murder, rape, natural disasters and catastrophes.

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criticized the corrupting influence of television built Kremlin rhetoric of many politicians, but the quality of the TV all this rhetoric is not affected. On the contrary: Talk about bad television supplement created by the same TV picture frightening and unknowable world. And not just TV – mass newspapers, websites and social networks are spreading sensational horror. Why so?

Of course, the news of accidents and murders are always easy to sell, they work to a mass audience, support ratings of channels – and hence the interest of advertisers. But there is no such direct effect. Consciously or not, the authors and the management of TV channels broadcast the horrors affect the level of needs of the inhabitant. If we start from Maslow’s pyramid, the picture is terrible around the world makes people focus on basic needs – physiological and safety needs for his family. Social, and spiritual needs of prestige are not relevant, it will further atomizes society and makes it difficult to organize themselves to solve some problems.

Even sadder, the head of the department of social and cultural studies « Levada Center,” Alexei Levinson, that the horrors and pseudoscience in the media form the habit of the average person no one believe a spontaneous agnosticism. The world is dangerous, surrounded by enemies ( even in water and food) around a second and a third meaning, truth, or maybe not at all. It is wider than the conspiracy theories, people feel their personal independence through distrust of all external – while the inside is empty. This sociological background is extremely negatives in terms of the development of education and culture.