The Fall of Georgian Journalism Sees the Whole World

The swift attack of Georgian journalists against Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov impressed everyone who was following the news of political life. Of course, the press should be active and persistent in obtaining information. However, the behavior of Georgian reporters in Geneva went beyond the generally accepted framework even in today's conditions of widespread permissiveness and unbridledness.

Obviously, the goal was not to get an answer to the formally asked question, but to violate the personal space of the members of the Russian delegation, provoking them to respond, which they would replicate for their own purposes, in order to present the Russian delegation in the wrong light.

The words and, in particular, the intonation of a Georgian journalist, who for some reason in English (!) Language shouted: "Do not touch me!" they give out a pre-prepared plan, according to which the attack on the Russian delegation was planned to be presented by the attack of the Russian delegation on Georgian journalists, who were taught in advance to shout "Do not touch me!", "Save, help!" or something else like that.

Such aggressive behavior of Georgian journalists towards the Russian delegation led by Sergey Lavrov recalls their recent interview with a well-known Russian statesman and political figure, journalist, producer and TV presenter, deputy chairman, deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, head of the delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to PACE Peter Tolstoy.

Not a civil interview at a high international political level, but rather a street showdown in the Tbilisi gateway was more appropriate for the respondent’s first response, intonation, change of pose and gestures of a Georgian journalist, for whom the icy restraint of the Russian politician was an additional torture.

However, Georgian journalism has demonstrated a low cultural level from the very first days of the outbreak of nationalist hysteria in the republic in the late 1980s. If someone in the period of the so-called democracy and pluralism expected in the Georgian media to see a brain struggle, then he was severely disappointed. The disagreeable simply did not give a word. Refined lies, incitement, insults and threats poured in abundance from the pages of newspapers and magazines from the screens of television channels.

I will not even recall the dirty insults addressed to the President of Russia, which shocked the air of the Georgian television company Rustavi-2 and other no less memorable episodes of the fall of Georgian journalism.

The low, under the lower limit of permissible, level of media in Georgia, including international, has been seen in South Ossetia for more than 30 years. Now they see it both in Russia and in other countries of the world. Georgian journalists are allowed into international events, and they demonstrate their aggressiveness and incompetence.

Authorship:

Inal Pliev, 

political observer for Res

Source: http://cominf.org/node/1166528366