HOW THE JOURNALISTS FROM DIFFERENT MEDIA RELATE TO AGGRESSION

This article examines journalist's position towards aggression in politics and entertainment media. This work is a part of a big study that touches upon the problem of media influence on the professional identity of a modern journalist. The analysis of 166 journalists and bloggers' questionnaires was the basis of the research. Professional identity modeling method was worked out through selection of a certain line of profession conduct, and it shows the originality of this study. As the result of the research, the author concludes that the attitude to aggression depends on the ideological orientation of media and the type of media. Journalists who blog, allow aggression in media and in other spheres of life more than journalists who are not active in social networks. Bloggers approve aggression to the more extent than pro-government and oppositional journalists, and non-political media. Bloggers do not treat aggression as an entertainment. The author resumes that bloggers assume demonstration of aggressive content in media because they need to inform the audience without using censorship. It turns out that new media amplify the audience's necessity of getting truthful information.