Journalism, as a type of commercial activity, in civilized countries is called the fourth power. It is no secret that many standards and regulations in force in European countries are completely unsuitable for use in the Russian information field. However, in the legion of domestic workers of the pen and microphone are brave knights. Among them, without any doubt, is Alexander Minkin.
Far start
Currently, print media journalists are blogging on the Internet. This is not a tribute to fashion, but a way to attract readers to their publications. For the same purposes, shocking and profanity are used. When you have to cover the life path of a famous person, it is more convenient to start with a biography. Alexander Viktorovich Minkin was born into a Jewish family on August 26, 1946. Place of birth - Moscow. There is every reason to believe that the boy’s childhood was not cloudless.
At school, Sasha Minkin could have studied better. He tries not to put this period of his life into wide discussion. Although some of his peers, in order to give their own person the missing color, to the place and out of place they recall their "hooligan" childhood. Yes, the situation in the capital a few years after the war remained very, very difficult. And even elementary heavy. To remain in human guise, the kid should be not only physically strong, but also morally strong.
Of course, yard childhood contributed to the formation of personal qualities. Minkin grew up a man not stupid and with a strong character. It was with a solid one, since he always lacked flexibility in the profession and personal life. Although he is not a stranger to easy coquetry. At the right moment, he skillfully performed the throwing of “incriminating evidence” on himself, dropping the phrase that “he had somehow finished school”. Stupid fellow writers do not get tired of sucking on this recognition, presenting a colleague as a dumb graphomaniac. Reference: Alexander Minkin is fluent in German and French.
The now-famous journalist began an independent life without a clear plan. He worked for several years at an industrial enterprise. At the end of the 60s, the achievements of scientific and technological progress were successfully introduced into production. A young worker served a plant for the production of food protein from carbon raw materials. Then around the country there were menacing rumors that margarine is made from oil. Minkin quit this job and went to build the Ostankino television tower. One day he accidentally looked into the editorial office of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
Pen tip problems
Astrologers and psychologists say that there are no accidents in human life. Alexander, starting in his teens, felt the taste of working with a word. He wrote poems, stories and even novels. He took part in various events, where beginners and venerable writers presented their works. In 1978, Minkin was accepted into the staff of MK. From this moment begins his professional career as a journalist. But as it began, it could have ended like that. Literally a year later, he left the editorial office.
Proving to someone, he entered GITIS. In 1984, he received a diploma of higher education with a degree in theater. Reviews and reviews written by him were readily published in various publications, but it was impossible to fully eat on the fees received. But in winter in Moscow it is cold, you can’t do without a coat and hat. Comrade Minkin for some time joined the gentlemen of the dissidents. He wrote strictly on order and only under a pseudonym. Of course, a talented and efficient journalist was noticed and invited to the Moscow News weekly.
No one regulated the new place of the observer, but they set one indispensable condition - not to touch on political issues. For a while, Alexander took his soul off, covering on his strip under the heading "Poster" materials on the news of cinema, theatrical life, talking about artists and musicians. In 1990, he became a columnist in the magazine "Twinkle". By this time, protest moods were already wandering in the country. According to the apt remark of one critic, Minkin put aside creativity, and entered the path of struggle.
Sensing only the smell of freedom, cunning zhurnalyugi broke from chains, revealing the accumulated problems and ulcers of socialism. Alexander Minkin did not in vain study the basics of theatrical productions. He found himself head and shoulders above the entire writing fraternity by publishing a well-structured article, The Cottoncrab, in The Twinkle. The publication was about involving children in cotton picking in Uzbekistan. Today we can say that the author was somewhat carried away by accusatory rhetoric. However, at that moment, a rebuttal by the parties concerned did not follow.
