Contemporary mass media on analytical comment issues

This article analyses the current status of analytical comment in Russian mass media, raises rhetorical question on future of the world's intellectual resources. The article notes decrease of TV commentators' competence for the sake of image of certain type, compares peculiar properties of analytical genres of the Soviet and modern periods.

commentator, intellectual, area of commentator's responsibility, television text, Leontiev, Kolesnikov, charisma, formation of perception, genre crisis, Soviet pre-war journalism, genre of sketch, public actions, existentiality