DOES “CLASSIC” MEAN “OBJECTIVE”? ON EARLY REPORTAGE BY DMITRY SOKOLOV-MITRICH
DOES “CLASSIC” MEAN “OBJECTIVE”? ON EARLY REPORTAGE BY DMITRY SOKOLOV-MITRICH

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze the narrative strategies and techniques present in Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich’s reportage. The author of the article focuses on the relationship between the „objective” genre form of reportage and the ideological message hidden in the text. The study includes objectivizing narrative techniques as well as persuasive forms that are linked to the reader’s automatic psychological mechanisms and by„soft”means update the image of the world that Rus- sian state propaganda tries to impose aggressively.The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the classic form of reportage, based on a system of objectifying strategies and not containing textual determinants of fiction, cannot guarantee the objectivity and truthfulness of the presented facts. Belief in the truthfulness of the story told can only be the result of the „referential pact” and not the formal procedures used by the reporter. The analysis of Sokolov-Mitrich’s work shows that the text of a reportage can be used not only to secretly influence the audience, but also to disguise views and ideas criticized in the primary (literal) layer of the text.

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