THE RADIO-STATION 'AZATUTYUN' (LIBERTY) AND ITS NEW 'CRITERIA'
I am sincerely surprised listening to the everyday news of the radio-station 'Azatutyun'. The most improbable thing to me was to hear mistakes and disinformation by this radio-station. Let's see a fragment of the evening broadcast of March 3 about the parliamentary elections in Armenia: 'Armenia is divided into 41 electoral districts. Each part is a separate theme of conversation. Which part is better, which is stony? Where and how much is 1m^2 of land? How many hectares of land can you reap and sow? What kind of neighbor fall to his lot? A relative, who is a General, or the respect that the candidate has, can do everything during the elections. Thus, we can understand that the votes are on the table, rolled in lavash (national bread)'.
After this 'neutral' commentary-preface the news follows saying 'Only Samvel Babaian, one of the leaders of the parties, put forward his candidature by majority system'. Then the reporter contradicts himself and goes on: 'ARF (Dashnaktsutyun) and the opposition avoid putting up their candidates by majority system. Ararat Zurabian puts forward his candidature by majority system'. The reporter has forgotten that Ararat Zurabian is the leader of the opposite ANM (HHSH) party. Besides, the other leaders of the parties also take part in the parliamentary elections by majority system: i. e. Gagik Tsarukian, Manuk Gasparian, Hovhannes Hovhannisian, Khosrov Harutyunian, etc. Moreover, what about the ARF (Dashnaktsutyun), it does not avoid putting up its candidates by majority system. The party declares that their principle is to form the parliament only by proportional representation, and they have only one candidate by majority system.
After these lines, our point of view about the high professionalism of the reporters of 'Azatutyun' radio-station blows up.
On March 6, in the evening broadcast the reporter mocks at the elections saying: 'Please agree, we speak so much about the clean and just elections that we are even afraid of it. What if the elections don't be clean and pure? Will Mr. Bush strike Iran, or Putin's daughter marry Sahakashvili's son, after that? In any case, the authorities will not have right to declare that everything is transparent. We do not speak about the opposition, as its point of view is nothing for anyone. Sorry, only once the Constitutional Court took into consideration the opinion of the opposition, and even the Court was afraid of the boldness of itself. Anyhow, the last word is up to the observers'.
We come to a conclusion from the above-mentioned, that the radio-station 'Azatutyun' has not qualified reporters to do political analyses.
What about Iran, all the media, especially the Russian one, was talking about the strike that USA intended to realize against Iran. They declare even the day and the time of the strike. Being one of the neighbors of Iran the anxiety about this was big in Armenia, too. Nevertheless, 'Azatutyun' radio-station didn't say a word and didn't do any analyses and commentaries.
Probably I would not return to this theme if I did not read an article in 'Haykakan jamanak' daily about the former worker of 'Azatutyun' radio-station Anna Karapetian. She told the reporter that she was dismissed from her job even being the 12 years' worker of the radio-station. Anna Karapetian is a well-known professional reporter and if she does not satisfy the requirements of the radio-station, it means that the criteria of the radio-station were changed and the radio-station needs non-qualified reporters only who do mistakes and spread disinformation.
In order to show that the elections in Armenia are not as disgraced as 'Azatutyun' radio-station represents, we want to show some fragments from the broadcast of the radio-station: UN Security Council has only five members, Bagoto is the capital of Columbia, there are no other countries in the world, besides Armenia, that demand taxes for the import of alcohol, Serj Sargsian held the tenure of Prime Minister before the funeral of Andranik Margarian, and 'Surb Khach' Church of Akhtamar has never had any pilgrim and incense-bearer before the reconstruction by Turkey.
Let us examine another example. In the broadcast of April 1 we heard the opinion of the actor Levon Sharafian (living now in Los Angeles) about the 'Armenia' pan-Armenian fund. From his point of view, building the roads is a way of making money. No one wants to open a dining-hall for the hungry people. Levon Sharafian left our country in 1995 and he has Armenia of 1995 in his mind, when in the axis of the social policy of the country was the opening of charity dining-halls. If not the reporter, but the editor had to know that 'Armenia' pan-Armenian fund was established to build roads which have a strategic role for our country, and not to open dining-halls. The actor could be ill-informed, but not the reporter, who had to be informed and select a right interlocutor.
Thus, we can say that 'Azatutyun' radio-station is interested in not giving the right information to the auditor, but to make its broadcast full of disinformation.
New criteria are defined for 'Azatutyun' radio-station that have nothing to do with professional journalism.
- By Sara Petrosian
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