The headline sounds very interesting but I was actually quite disappointed by the article itself. It doesn't offer any concrete examples or any attempt to actually validate what this guy is saying. It also doesn't even attempt to compare this to what the media landscape looks like in other countries.
If all that happened was that a "prominent news anchor reviewed the coming events as if they were part of a film script, musing on how best to entertain the audience and questioning who that week’s enemy should be" then this doesn't sound too different from what probably happens in some US news rooms as well.
I have no trouble believing that Russian TV is a propaganda machine and projects like the World Press Freedom Index [1] tend to agree. But this seems like a very weak article to make this point.