Behind the Camera
카메라 뒤에서는
Margarita Simonyan, the editor in chief of the RT network, places her head in her hands and lets out a groan at the question she has heard so many times before:
RT의 편집의 팀장인 Margarita simonyan는 그녀의 손안에 그녀의 사람을 심어넣었다. 그리고 그녀가 무섭게 그 문제에 대해 신음할 때 그녀는 이전에 많이 들었습니다
Does the Kremlin influence her coverage?
Kremlin의 영향이 그녀(Margarita simonyan)의 보도에 영향을 주는가?
She admits that her network shows a worldview that is “defined by certain principles expressed by the state, by representatives of the Russian state.”
그녀는 그녀의 네트워크의 세계관에 대해서 인정했습니다 그건 “정확한 원칙에 의하여 정부에 의해서 그리고 러시아의 대표에 의해서 표현되는 것을 정의합니다.
But she claims not to see how that makes RT any less objective than an independent Western broadcaster.
하지만 그녀의 주장으로 말하자면 RT가 작은 목표을 만들고 있는지에 대해서 독립적인 서양방송은 그 사실에 대해서 간과하고 있습니다.
“No one shows objective reality,”
아무도 객관적 사실에 대해서 보여주지않고 있다.
she says, sitting in her office in Moscow, just across the river from the Kremlin.
바로 크렘린에서 강을 건너 모스코바에서 앉은(지위에 있다는 의미인 듯 내 판단으로는 가장 러시아에서 보도의 영향이 있는 지위을 뜻하는 의미가 있는것같음) 그녀는 말합니다.
“The Western media are not objective, reality-based news sources.”
현실 기반의 뉴스 소스을 기반으로 본 서양 미디어는 객관적이지 않습니다.
Simonyan has spent her career at the intersection of journalism and propaganda.
In 2002, she got a job as a reporter for state TV in Moscow, assigned to the Kremlin pool, the huddle of journalists that follows and transmits Putin’s every public utterance.
Within a few years, she had distinguished herself enough in that role to be given the top job—at the age of 25—at the newly established Russia Today network, which changed its name to RT four years later.
In 2012, when Putin announced his plan to return to the presidency after a four-year term as Prime Minister, Simonyan became directly involved in politics, joining the staff of Putin’s election team in Moscow and helping campaign for his landslide victory—while remaining in her job at RT.
Asked the following year how she avoided a conflict of interest between her campaign role and her position as a journalist, she told an interviewer that she wasn’t sure, adding, “I’ve managed.”
At the end of 2013 she was awarded the job of editor in chief of Rossiya Segodnya, the Kremlin’s newly formed media conglomerate.
Headquartered in a sprawling complex of gray concrete on Moscow’s Zubovsky Boulevard, the agency consolidated some of the state’s vast holdings in the information industry, including news wires, radio stations and, as of last November, an international multimedia agency called Sputnik, which puts out news in 12 languages, among them Chinese, Hindi and Turkish.
Of all those brands, RT is by far the most powerful in delivering the Kremlin’s version of news to the world.
Simonyan, now 34, bristles at suggestions that her media empire is not editorially independent.
Is it possible, for instance, that someone from the Kremlin might call her up and demand that she not broadcast a particular story? “How can you imagine such a thing?” she asks, looking genuinely hurt.
And yet on her desk sits an old yellow telephone, a government landline, the sort with no dial pad, the sort usually seen in the offices of senior Russian officials.
It is her secure connection, she admits, directly to the Kremlin.
What’s it for, then, if not to talk shop?
“The phone exists,” she says, “to discuss secret things.”
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