Just thought I’d leave a note to myself on the day I left my day job. Genuinely, one factor that helped push me off the fence of my prevarication was the astonishing bravery of Marina Ovsyannikova. My goodness – if someone has the courage and the integrity to photobomb Russian news, then I can walk away from a soulless day job working for a company that also, in its own small miriad of ways, lies for a living. Correction: lies for profit.
Unlike Marina Ovsyannikova, I’m free. In an age when every mundanity on the plant with a phone or a camera in front of them is ‘inspired’ by some other mundanity, or ‘passionate’, or ‘so excited’ or ‘humbled’ by some mediocrity or other, I really had given up on the hope that anyone might make a principled stance about anything. Thank you Marina.
PS
On a media tech note, I thought it rather quaint – and fittingly ‘Soviet era’ – that it was still possible to photobomb live TV news. I may be mistaken, but doesn’t all ‘live’ TV in the UK go out with something like a 30 second delay to head-off exactly this kind of thing?
Am I doubly mistaken or was this brought in after the still-refreshing Matt Bianco Saturday Live interview? It seems so long ago now, that I’m doubting myself. And the recent fire alarm episode of the Today Programme would seem to suggest this isn’t the case. Either way you’d have thought the Russians would have it covered. And it was worth the tenuous link from autocratic media-control to frivolous pop fluff in one step.
