Oleg Kireev on Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:18:27 +0400 (WSU DST) |
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Syndicate: mailradek no. 25 (O.Kireev on media and war) |
The "mailradek" project is a non-regular posting of subjective commentaries on political themes. The information about the project is available on the Website (in Russian): http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/1457. Everybody who doesn't receive it can send a "subscribe english mailradek" or "subscribe russian mailradek" (a more often and full version) e-mail to kireev@glasnet.ru, and I'll include him into the mailing list. Address: Russia 117333 Moscow, Vavilova 48-237, tel.: (095) 137 71 31, e-mail: kireev@glasnet.ru Text no. 77 16.04.1999 I'd like to choose only one theme among all discussed themes which concern the war right now: that is HOW the war is duscussed. Informational flow takes us in a direction of resolutions, declarations, protests and speeches of politicians who hurry up to express their non-original opinions. The discussion's character dictates to us its main issue, politicians and media holders set the agenda. None of them has considered that the war has to be discussed in a different way, and it has to be discussed by others! First: the terrible thing that abuses me personally is that they show on one channel the news about hospitals forced to sign out the wounded in order to free places for new ones, about refugees which have nothing to eat, and simultaneously on another channel our popstars sing their disgusting songies! TV has no right to speak of war and death! Second: media suggests to think of the already known political means, while indeed these were the means that lead to the present situation. The effective forms of political action were all invented sometimes, for example, a demonstration has appeared by the end of the XIX century as a softened form of street disorders, after the trade unions took control over the rebelling masses. But for a long time one has not seen new effective means. Maybe the war started and continues due to the fact that ministers were negotiating traditionally instead of drinking vodka together. It will continue if pacifists keep making demosnstrations and resolutions instead of smashing military offices and military ministeriums! Third and the most important: the capacity of making information and setting an agenda is available to a very few, to those who can speak in the name of their own refined person, who got the opportunity of speaking because of their education and career success in political/informational system, who can affirm the significance of their small "personality" due to their position in privileged conditions of culture and civilisation (including me, who will sign this text after a minute). Of the humanist civilisation which finally demonstrates the bankruptcy of humanist ideas. We won't ever know the names of the killed, of the wounded, of the refugees, of all those who can't speak to the cameras. But Milosevic, Solana, Clinton, Blair and others, all criminals who's guilt before the silent ones is endless, keep smiling and wearing clean suits and ties. Glory of a small Balkan dictator is growing even in Muslim countries (the paradoxes of history!). And I have a question: if NATO declared Milosevic and not a Serbian nation to be its main enemy, and if the Western leaders knew that bombings would inevitably lead to deaths, why weren't they beating his own residence into shit with their bombs? Why have they sent the militaries against the peaceful population instead of going to fight Milosevic with the feasts personally? It would not be bad to go back to the Middle Ages' "barbarism" when leaders had to step out first to any fight! Oleg KIreev INFO: Anti-war started its work at April, 17. It is a tactical NGO, which task is to organize a campaign against Russia's involvement into the war, since such possibility is not excluded. Comittee is going to organize both informational scandals and radical actions. Contact Comittee by: ecodefense@glasnet.ru, aln@glasnet.ru. April, 4 and 9 the explosions took place before the Moscow offices of FSB. The press published a few materials referring to some letters of anarchists who told the actions were made to sign a protest against "The Krasnodar case"; but the other anarchists told it's a falsification. But anyway, a really good and well-organized concert of Moscow new underground groups took place at April, 18 in the very center of Moscow. The participants expressed their solidarity with Larissa Romanova and Maria Randina, the "Krasnodar case" victims. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress