The book of journalist Andrei Norkin is a chronicle of the dramatic information confrontation that unfolded on television screens, newspaper pages, on the air and on the Internet space of our country. What was behind the loud slogans about the struggle for freedom of speech in the early 2000s? What principles were guided by the owners and leaders of the liberal media? Why did the former rulers of thoughts lose the respect of their own audience? And can journalists claim the right to represent the truth in the last instance?