MOSCOW. Jan 14 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that he was dissatisfied with the low level of programs on central TV channels and that he promised "to make a news factory" of his own.
"How can we raise the industry and the country in general where central television broadcasts are full of vulgarity and where even in news segments it is possible to learn everything about Hollywood or the British royal family but notthing about one's own country? I am not talking about Ogonyoks [New Year TV shows]… I am talking about ordinary news programs in which even the President is mentioned not by the essence of his decisions but by the technologies of PR," Rogozin posted on his Facebook account.
Almost nothing is said on the television about the enterprises of the military industrial complex, their successes and experts working at them, the deputy prime minister said.
"Do state and semi-state TV channels have reporters, producers and executives, who think about the future of the country at all? Who think the same as we do? Or are the formats, TV shows purchased abroad and other ideas covering your laziness, lack of talent, your deep and incurable Russophobia and contempt for everything created by domestic labor and the great culture of Russia more important?" Rogozin said.
"Today I ordered the press offices of our corporations and integrated structures in space, aircraft, ship, engine, helicopter and other construction projects to glean instances of real uprisings in the country's industry, the restoration of its great military industrial complex and the country's new industrialization in general. We will make 'a news factory of our own' - real, optimistic and pushing the nation towards new accomplishments [in the news]," Rogozin said.
This will be a response to the dominance of low-level trash currently on television screens, the deputy prime minister said.
"Some want to make us laugh during every hour of TV entertainment. While we want to return the hope for a Russian national industrial revival to the people based on real, convincing instances of such a revival," Rogozin said.