MANIPULATIVE TECHNIQUES USED BY THE MEDIA IN MESSAGES ABOUT DEMOLITION OF URBAN FACILITIES

Abstract

The article discusses manipulative techniques used by journalists in publications in the media devoted to the demolition of urban facilities. Public opinion and perception of events related to the liquidation of buildings are formed through the media, so the message about the demolition of a “ramshackle” and the demolition of “another historical building” may refer to the same object, but this information will be perceived by citizens in different ways due to the use of media manipulations at the micro, meso and macro levels in the text. Public organizations, involving the media in covering the fact of demolition, often broadcast their opinion about what is happening and strive to prove the value of the demolished object in the first messages, but once on the pages of the media, a separate story grows to a full-fledged plot, where there are always right and wrong. Using the opinion of urban defenders, developers, representatives of the administration, local historians, eyewitnesses and ordinary citizens, the media can direct the development of history in the right direction and interest their audience in a dynamically developing plot. The demolition of buildings of value to citizens reflects the imperfection of the modern system of protection of cultural heritage sites, the lack of a protected status for historical buildings, the lack of sufficient funding to preserve all objects and the lack of a unified approach.