The New Yorker said Ernst admitted a plot error on Channel One about the downed MH17
The publication The New Yorker published material written by Joshua Jaffa, dedicated to the personality of the General Director of Channel One of Russia Konstantin Ernst. The material tells how in the 1999 year the appeal of the then President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin with his famous “I was tired. I'm leaving". Also about how the recording of that appeal was made and how Ernst himself was surprised when he saw a text in front of him that Yeltsin was going to pronounce instead of the traditional New Year's greetings.
Ernst’s words about the first actions of Vladimir Putin after Yeltsin’s departure from power, about Putin’s visit to the North Caucasus and about the need to stop the collapse of Russia are cited.
The material also dealt with how the main channel of the country was “pulled out” from the hands of Berezovsky. Allegedly, it all started with reports on the death of the Kursk submarine, when the president was outraged by the supply of material and when he himself went to meet with the relatives of the sailors to tell people the truth.
Jaffa tells his readers that Ernst, as the general director of Channel One, made the broadcast of the inauguration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Victory Day parades from Red Square, more “ambitious”. Ernst himself calls "the creative director of the Kremlin."
From the material:
Ernst considers himself a statesman.
A Western journalist writes that Channel One of Russian television "underestimated the number of hostages in the Beslan school."
Moreover, the author notes that the “First” conveys information with “taste and content”. The material criticizes the "Russia" shopping center and specifically Dmitry Kiselyov - his famous words about "radioactive ash" are cited with a note that they do not allow themselves to do this on the First. About how Russia is presented as an enemy and almost a hellish place on Earth on American TV channels, of course, there is no talk in The New Yorker ...
The article discusses the topic of the Malaysian Boeing shot down over the Donbass.
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In November 2014 of the year, the so-called "sensational" footage was broadcast on Channel One: a satellite image, allegedly taken by Western intelligence agencies and transmitted to Russia by American scientists, designed to demonstrate the attack of an aircraft by a Ukrainian fighter. “The image supports a version of events that was hardly heard in the West,” the host said. (...) When I asked Ernst why his channel voiced something so easily refuted, he replied that this was a simple mistake: “Yes, we people, we made a mistake, but not on purpose. ”
Based on this, the author of the material claims that the false facts are not "catastrophic" for the channel, but act as an "integral part of propaganda."
It is noteworthy that the article is not a classic interview, but a set of judgments of the author himself interspersed with the fact that he talked with someone about something or from someone about something (about that - including about Ernst) heard.
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