In memory: The death of Milen Turnov is a cruel metaphor of his fight with the elites

The horrific death of Milen Tsvetkov – even more unbearable, as it is the result of guilty human behavior – revealed an unsuspected potential of civil solidarity in today’s Bulgarian society. People have experienced what happened to him as a personal loss and expressed their sorrow on social networks. They even caused reproaches like – what did you have to do with Milen Tsvetkov to arrange for those who really had; Did you do anything for him while he was alive to have the right to discuss it when it wasn’t already. Probably some tried to achieve a tasteless PR on his back, as are probably some of their reproaches for some of their reproaches. But this is not important in this case.

If this definition sounds too strong, it is because we tend to perceive the characters according to the textbook clichés – as historical icons, possibly killed by an enemy bullet. And let’s forget that their future glory did not seem to be like they looked like their countrymen with their aspirations, vicissitudes, imperfections and lifestyle.

On behalf of the « little man »

I am not saying that Milen Tsvetkov will fall into the history textbooks, except for the mandatory history of the media during the transition, but I say that his death drives the cultural mechanism of the heroic. Why did this happen to him right now?

But more than that – he launched him on the air, let him express his dissatisfaction himself, not sparing him when they sounded whining and groundless because he wanted to make him an equal participant in public dialogue.

Thus, Milen Tsvetkov turned the morning block of Nova TV into a political prime time, which until then on television was reserved for the afternoon. And politicians had to actually answer the mediation of the presenter of the questions of the people; They had to come out of the comfort of the learned professional roles. The most ruthless to them, of course, were the adults who endured the great weight of the transition. And also understandably, they developed a counter -attachment to Tsvetkov when they caught the phone: Milencho, Milencho

Naturally, the elites could not long bear this journalistic dramaturgy and Tsvetkov had to leave the morning block. But he had already created a model of a political show « Pajami » with a non -current and direct tone. The model began to reproduce from other televisions – Koritarov, Barekov (DS, BBC) – the difference explains the nostalgic identification with Tsvetkov. The ruling of more than one term and the speakers close to them insisted that the politicians safe for politicians are a service-information model of the morning blocks. Today, this has already happened to a large extent.

Velko Angelov

And Milen, among his next forced intermission, went down to Nova’s programming scheme to the « small hours ». The show, which became his emblem – « The Hour of Milen Tsvetkov » – was literally aired midnight. Which allowed him to give space to irony and fun, as typical features of his screen handwriting.

In a journalistic fight with the elites

Irony is mandatory for modern journalism, especially for a society that is rarely the same as what is presented for. And the entertainment, in addition to coming from Milen’s temper, was the last defense of the « little man » from the absurdities of the social world. It allowed the presenter to sit against a folk star, playmaker or taxi driver and talk to them in the same way as politicians and businessmen.

And she experienced Milen as her screen protector, as a « rhetorical thug », defending her frequent « dark addition ». It was this image for hours that brought him into the « heroic matrix » after his death – only then, because in everyday communication with someone « from the TV » you have a hard time aware of the professional and human price he has to pay. You only understand it when you meet him is taken away irrevocably.

At the same time, his death became a cruel metaphor of his journalistic fight with the elites, whose uncontrolled laxity took his life.

However, the anger is short-sighted and poured on the 22-year-old youth who caused the crash and there was exhausted after a series of moralizing exercises on social networks.

Milen became a hero because he was a selfless fighter for her from the screen, without pathetic, slogans and protests, as something that is naturally wearing, but still someone manages to steal it. He had no intention of liberating other nations, nor even his own, was just a normal person at a time when normal heroes were.

« The other self » of the ordinary person

The context of the pandemic, which allowed the authorities to convince people, is also important that in order to survive, they must temporarily give up democracy. But they remained a symbolic disagreement with their own self -preservative behavior. And when Milen’s tragic demise focuses their attention to his last appearances – we are not a flock to make us every day, the masks are not to keep us, but to remain silent – people found their alter ego in it. She said aloud what they did not dare.

We produced a modern character from Milen, if it is not a day until noon. And to open our senses to others like him who are at the next table, or are currently interviewing some marginal television.