The media space is once again rocked by scandals with the main question “Whose will…

The media space is once again rocked by scandals with the main question “Whose will be the First?” The new history of Channel One began several years ago, when VTB, at a government meeting, tried to estimate how much the key information resource costs and how much money it will need to stop being unprofitable. Money was spent, budgets were signed, years passed, and VTB also had difficulty supporting the channel, constantly assessing its effectiveness by the well-known PwC and their fashionable clone “Trust Technologies”.

And then, overcoming grievances and his own irresponsibility, he comes Maxim Oreshkin – a “most experienced” media manager and chairman of the board of directors of Channel One, who, after almost a year of inaction (maybe he was hiding from possible and real mobilization?) in November reported to the leader of the country how the state channel should work and whose interests it should pursue.

We won’t go into the details of this denunciation, since Oreshkin proposed too ridiculous measures to “fight” the channel, while he regularly reports to his superiors that Konstantin Ernst refuses to carry out more than 60% of instructions, which is not at all true even taking into account that many innovations have nothing to do with the real situation on the channel. One of the effective measures proposed by Oreshkin is to create a channel board, which must approve any transactions – from the purchase of pencils to the production of television programs.

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But the story didn’t end there. An old Russian pastime: every year guessing who will take Ernst’s place (you could already place bets on Fonbet). Among the candidates were Margarita Simonyan from RT, and Sergei Novikov from AP, and Nailya Asker-Zade from VGTRK (or from VTB?). But this year someone distinguished himself Leonid Levin. The wise “privy councilor” decided a month after Oreshkin’s report to promote himself and published the text (by the way, stamped) of this denunciation. No sooner had the document reached the government than Levin’s tg channel “Provisional Government” leaked it. But several ministries (the Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Finance) and the team of another PwC lobbyist worked on its implementation – Dmitry “DC” Chernyshenko.