Author of quotes: Alexander Minkin

The statistics are stable (both in Russia and elsewhere): despite all the baits and gifts, only 5 percent of the respondents agree to install a peoplemeter. Only among them are the "experts" chosen, who press the buttons, and we find out what the "people" like. ... It is not the Kremlin and not the people, not advertisers and not the heads of TV channels, but it is not known who (out of the 5 percent stratum of deprived of life psychos) decides what the nation will watch. Decide those to whom we (seeing what they like) would not entrust a kitten, let alone a child. Those that we would try to stay away from. ... In all countries where people meters work, about 5 percent agree on the device. Therefore, everywhere "experts" - a random sample! - are recruited not from the whole people, not from the majority, but from a very small and very strange minority. ... This is where the disgust of the majority comes from. Someone else's choice is on the screen.