Read the transcript of the meeting between RBC journalists and the “new management” brought in from TASS (yes, that same outfit where the Presidential Administration controls everything, down to which photos get used):
It contains all the vileness of the day. The posturing, the disgusting euphemisms of crooks pretending to be decent people.
They came to commit a criminal offense: to impose censorship on a free publication and obstruct journalistic work. And they say all this now-familiar filth right to the faces of those gathered there: “double solid line,” “quality news,” “I’m about business and KPIs.”
What KPIs, what business? Your lousy TASS received this year 1.8 billion rubles directly from the state budget.
I feel terribly sorry for RBC—it had turned into such an excellent media outlet. It looks like they’re going to turn it not even into *Kommersant*, but straight into *Lenta.ru*.
I hope the newly created journalists’ union takes this transcript everywhere—along with the earlier dismissals—demanding a censorship case be opened.
Obviously, there will be no legal consequences, but the gesture itself matters here.
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