EXPERIENCED REPORTERS OF RADIO LIBERTY BEING FIRED
When recently, the Yerevan Bureau Chief of Radio Liberty, Atom Margaryan was fired, reporters could not find out why and what was the reason. That remained a secret.The story is repeated with Armen Doulyan and Ruzan Khachatryan, who have both left Radio Liberty, but remain steadfastly silent about the reasons.The media is also silent, even though some of its representatives are usually very outspoken in such cases. Our information indicates that both of them have been invited by Public TV to have their own talk show, which will be launched in late September.
However, there was some information among reporters as to why they left Radio Liberty. According to this, Armen Doulyan, who was Acting Bureau Chief before he left, sent a reporter to an event, only to discover that Prague management also sent someone to cover the same event. This seemed to have been a vote of no-confidence in him, which angered Doulyan who served 14 years at Radio Liberty. We were not able to verify this from Mr. Doulyan or ask him about other possible reasons for his departure. Therefore, we have to be content with our own assumptions.
Nobody doubts the fact that these journalists were all professionals and well-informed media people know that they never catered to any political or other special interests. It is also not a secret - and regular listeners know well - that especially in the last six months, Radio Liberty's programs have assumed a distinctly 'orange' colour. The voices of the radical-pro-Levon opposition have a special place in its programs and the two journalists have tried to maintain a balance in their own reports and analytical pieces, by trying to make the voices or other sides heard equally.
Our readers also remember the case of another professional journalist, Anna Karapetian, who was unfairly fired from Radio Liberty more than a year ago and now is suing the management in Czech courts. Likewise, the firing of another experienced journalist, Armen Zakaryan, never became a subject of discussion by our 'liberal' media. We would like to just add that besides the Washington style, coded modus operandi, for which we cannot blame the staff of a radio financed by the U.S. Congress, the Armenian Service of RL suffers from another problem - the intolerance of its director, Hrair Tamrazyan vis-à-vis experienced journalists of his own generation. This possibly has psychological roots. We leave the conclusion to the readers and to Radio Liberty, its own slogans about plurality of opinion.
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1When recently, the Yerevan Bureau Chief of Radio Liberty, Atom Margaryan was fired, reporters could not find out why and what was the reason. That remained a secret.The story is repeated with Armen Doulyan ...
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