Soon, there might even be self-justice, physically, I mean - as I see with what enthusiasm some media have entrenched themselves in the performances of the new hordes of TV presenters. Most often they are of the female gender - it is probably not politically correct to point out this fact. In order to maintain balance, I will add that there are also many presenters who do not wear skirts, but act like little girls. In general, I will try to be merciful. The merciful KK.
The problem is not new, but the frivolity with which TVs produce "presenters" has now become unbearable. As if they are picking them straight off the street. At least they haven't started searching for them on the ring road.
One great genre, that of the interview - at least for television, is turning into intrusive babbling. Personally, I am already afraid of accidentally coming across a similar show, I won't be able to bear it. But the blame is not so much on the hosts, but on those who hire them - they need impersonal, "washed" beings who are not capable of causing any inconvenience.
This is a conspiracy that slowly reaches an important result, and it could have a significant impact on the future of television. I am not exaggerating. There is no need to censor the talk shows - it always smells bad, there is an easier way to turn them into something harmless and safe. You dilute the hosts with juicy ladies, while you erase and completely eliminate the idea of a normal host.
Television bosses behave like Gaddafi - the Libyan dictator trusted only the women in his guard. Our television Gaddafi's, on the other hand, feel calm and safe, surrounded by a cocoon. Because the chosen hosts, especially lately, are model bitter. And this makes them imagine that the person against them - their sworn enemy - is the same garbage. And they easily discredit him in the eyes of the audience. Moreover, even God will struggle if he has to give an interview to such a host. We are witnessing the revolution of bitterness.
Television, although gradually, is fundamentally changing its nature: it is becoming a powerful machine that mainly bombards the audience with empty talk, downright unbearable for an educated viewer. Caught in this whirlpool, the interviewees do not resemble themselves at all, nothing stays after them, rarely can we hear a memorable phrase from them. No one makes an effort for this to happen - for the talking heads, it has never been necessary, television does not need to be a repository of wisdom and experience. The goal is clear: for it to become a glittering box, harmless and safe, emitting laughter and noise.
Even if some talking head has good intentions, they are not sure how to implement them. For a long time, television networks do not build up their hosts with patience, they do not give them enough time for self-reflection. There is no one to guide them in this search. They do what is easiest, and in most cases, it is primitive mimicry.
Today's hosts are completely under the dictatorship of their earpieces, in which their editors are buzzing non-stop. However, they don't take any responsibility. Earpieces are one of the biggest evils in the television profession - the other being the artificial laughter which is constantly injected into the show. Wind.
When I interviewed Gorbachev in 2002, he was very pleased because he saw himself in a different, unknown way - for example, when I showed him the famous caricature from the magazine "Der Spiegel", where he was depicted as a beggar waiting for alms. He was also perplexed - he mentioned that he was recently interviewed by an American television network and during the conversation, 12 people were helping the host. But in Sofia, during our conversation, there were no assistants at all. These assistants to the host can cause him great inconvenience - at the very least, the audience immediately understands that he is being dragged on a leash, they pull him when he needs to speak - they treat him like a scrambled trash.
The classic approaches to the Interviewee are now completely forgotten: to read/watch everything he has confessed up to this point - and then take it from there. I have spoken to Stoyanka Mutafova several times over the course of thirty years or more. We knew each other well, but it wasn't until 2012 that some new details came out about her, which even she was not aware of - in response to the seemingly ordinary question, "What didn't they understand about you?"
Today's palettes simply infuriate some of our most famous figures, because they talk to them as if they are introducing them to the public for the first time - and both Stoyana and Kaloianchev and others have complained to me about this harassment.
We are all writing one book - at least it should be that way: one starts it, others continue and supplement it over the years. With their ignorance and impatience, today's seasonal workers, who also have to pass as hosts, simply ruin the conversational genre. I will never forget the amazement of Steven Baldwin, when at the beginning of our conversation I gave him a sandwich with peanut butter. "How did you know?" he said, and from then on everything was easy.
One of the funniest characteristics of today's hosts is the ease with which they are amazed - and as has been said before, you can be amazed even if the head of Gestapo enters your studio.
They are easily amazed and even more easily praised, even when faced with unremarkable examples of mediocrity. If they continue to be so easily amazed, they will declare the amoeba as the king of nature, just like that. They are also often so insincere in their compliments that they can even make the amoeba uncomfortable. More serious than their guests, if there really are any, need to wear gas masks in order to survive the completely undeserved praise they are subjected to.
By the way, many of these ladies will have a hard time answering the question "What exactly do they do?" Very often they are simply drinkers - it is indescribable the way they get excited about obvious stupidity, and then they become messengers of these foolishness, and often of gossip and rumors.
A host should carefully monitor what they offer/sell to their viewers. As long as they are at least somewhat independent. By the way, how is the word "independence" translated in today's television? Once I couldn't bear it and said about a popular TV host that they have the same freedom and independence as a grilled chicken.
But the blame is not just on the "hosts": they are pampered by our insane politicians who are willing to rush to television at every invitation, as if they were participating in a game show.
In my work, for many years I followed one rule: to invite only people who are wiser than the host as interviewees. The random ones should stay at bay. Well, with age, even if one is a TV host, they become wiser, but even then they should strive to extract something valuable from their younger guests.
There are other rules that the "new" hosts are unlikely to understand, for example: If some hosts don't check their watches so often, it will be better. However, some have added three more arrows for extra protection.
And another thing: At least once in their career, every host should take a break and ignite their own fire.
And something else, no less important: Hosts should be subjected to a mandatory test of humanity.
Now there is a new trend: television bosses are particularly keen on hiring famous actors as hosts - for unknown reasons, perhaps not expecting any complications or troubles from them. It seems they only see them as obedient readers. There is also another small calculation: they hope the actors will transfer some of their popularity onto the show, rent it out.
It is possible to happen – but it is a temporary solution and even more temporary salvation.
Television channels seem unaware that the hosts are not selling themselves, that should be their last concern, but rather their guests.
You discover or rediscover intelligent people, as many as are left, and impose the Voices of Time. If the host succeeds in this endeavor, they have a chance to be remembered.
The real salvation is different: for television channels to cultivate hosts - people with character and a mission, without burdening them with their own fears. But this is unlikely to happen soon.
Well, that's all from the merciful KK.
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