How profitable is the profession of a journalist? By the fact that in addition to presenting real facts, one can promote one’s views through the mass media, which have a large population coverage, actively introduce them into people's minds. That is, in this profession subjectivity is quite possible.
This phenomenon is clearly visible on the example of the work of the journalist Alexander Nikonov. According to Wikipedia, he adheres to right-wing liberal views. That is, it stands for human rights and personal freedoms, which must be unshakably unshakable. He is also a supporter of transhumanism - a person who has his own opinion on everything and strives to improve his lifestyle through modern technology. Another area of journalist conviction is libertianism. Well, this is quite interesting: maximum political freedom and so on.
Freedom-loving journalist
On the whole, it can be said that Nikonov is a man who is eager to get complete freedom of action, thought, and desire. Perhaps something else that he has not yet voiced.
At least he wants freedom for prostitutes for their activities; addicts for their pleasures; everyone else who wants to get rid of the extra burden - sick children, for example, applying euthanasia to them.
But now the question arises: what is freedom for him? A conscious need, like the classics, or complete unbridledness, like some theorists? Probably, you need to read the creations of a journalist in order to understand this.
Moreover, Nikonov is very prolific: quite a few books with unusual titles that shout about freedom have come out from under his pen. He also published a lot in leading Russian newspapers and magazines.
I received many awards for my work - I want to believe that it is deserved. So, he has a jubilee Pushkin Medal (1999); In 2001, he received the Union of Russian Journalists Award for outstanding services to Russian journalism; in 2002, he repeated this success. Then there was a big break in the awards, and here again: in 2005 - the Belyaev Prize for the book "Monkey Upgrade", which was later banned; in 2010 he won the Nonconformism Prize. He received this award for the novel "Anna Karenina, a female." Poor Lev Nikolaevich
.He was not a non-conformist, although how to say
Since then, awards have bypassed the journalist.
Biography
Alexander Petrovich Nikonov was born in Moscow in 1964 in an ordinary family. He did not plan to become a journalist and did not dream - this is evident from his education. After leaving school, Sasha entered the MISiS to study the science of alloy steel. The university graduated, but did not become a steelworker - pulled to pen and paper.
He wrote a lot and passionately, and on this basis he met with the scandalous journalist Dmitry Bykov. And in 1996, they, together with a friend, fell into a criminal case for publishing an appendix to The Interlocutor. The application was called quite harmless - "Mother", but its content was not entirely harmless. It was an obscene newspaper, and it is forbidden to use obscene expressions in the press in the Russian Federation.
In this connection, I would like to quote Anton Pavlovich Chekhov that everything should be fine in a person. But it’s impossible - all of a sudden transhumanists and libertians will be offended? And if right-wing liberals also join them, something incredible may begin at all.
By the way, the fact about the criminal case does not appear in Bykov’s biography, but Nikonov has it. However, this is not the only fact of persecution of a freedom-loving journalist. In 2009, the St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office ordered the retirement of Nikonov’s book “Upgrade Monkeys” from sale. The ministers saw in her a call for the legalization of drugs. The book was withdrawn from sale, which caused considerable damage to the writer. But he did not give up: a year later the same book was published under the title "Crown of Creation in the Interior of the Universe". True, Nikonov removed the chapter on drugs from the book, it is not clear why. Where is the freedom of speech and belief?
