Tired of propaganda. Russians cease to watch state TV channels massively - research

The Federal TV channels of the Russian Federation began to "fail", reducing the coverage of the audience by 25%. People use the Internet and messengers to avoid another propaganda and find alternative information. About it reports The Moscow Times. Since February, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the study of the media survival of the Russians, conducted by Romir, showed that reaching the audience in the First Channel, Russia-1 and NTV collapsed for a quarter. If 33.

7% of the population was watched before the war, 25. 5% in July. Video of the day, as a result, the "Great Three" of the State Channels for the first time gave way to Telegram, the coverage of which increased from February to July from 19. 1% to 26. 8%. Russian channels that have blocked the broadcasting net for military needs removed entertaining programs and raised the propaganda degree to the level of the Stalinian USSR, thus losing their attractiveness to all age groups.

“Propagandists emphasize the principle called vapor altruism and is well studied to date. They blow the differences, appeal to the image of the enemy and construct dangers that are not in real life, ” - said psychiatrist Viktor Lebedev. But the monotonous flow causes fatigue, and the lack of the promised devastating victory is accompanied by increasing frustration. So, now only 2% of Russians believe that the war will end within a month, although in March there were 14%.