How can a journalist present a specific event in such a way that the reader does not receive any information about the content of the event, but succeeds in insulting specific people using manipulation and preaching intolerance?<\/p>\n
The author of the Iravunk newspaper article<\/a> \u201cFor The Minister, A Standard For Being A Cultural Figure Is Propagating Perversion\u201d succeeded in that.<\/p>\n On July 17, we organized a discussion with the topic \u201cRevolution With Or Without Culture?\u201d We thought of the following format: The Minister of Culture would participate and those artists, who, as a rule, we don\u2019t usually see in \u201cPrime Minister (Minister) – cultural figures\u201d meetings, but who have presented their comments on the cultural policy model in Armenia in the media and on social networks. And aside from that, they are interesting and unique figures of contemporary art.<\/p>\n We invited poet Violet Grigoryan, painter Samvel Saghatelyan, architect Misak Khostikyan and editor in chief of the Hayer media platform Araik Manukyan, who also had interesting suggestions for the minister.<\/p>\n The participants of the discussion met at the Media center, in fact, after working hours, since the Minister of Culture could not participate in the discussion during working hours. A discussion-debate took place.<\/p>\n And, here, the above-mentioned article wrote, that the newly appointed Minister of Culture, Lilit Makunts, doesn\u2019t have time for \u201cthose who live through and create real culture,\u201d but has time to meet with people who \u201cuse culture to propagate perversion under the guise of culture\u2026 who desecrate art.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDays ago,\u201d says the author of the article, Lilit Yeghiazaryan, \u201cthe ministry received in his office (edit: minister) a foreign citizen, Canadian-Armenian actress ARSINE KHANDJIAN, who has great experience in being videotaped naked in films, and wo days ago, had a discussion with a great master of curses and pornography VIOLET GRIGORYAN, and a man who is so surprised by his own genital organ that it is reflected in his paintings, Los Angeles resident, painter-architect SAMVEL SAGHATELYAN on the topic of \u2018Revolution With Or Without Culture.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The journalist who writes on culture and art specifically underlines that so and so actress \u201chas great experience in making films naked\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n I will not write anything about the professional preparedness of the author of the article, she works, her articles in \u201cIravunk\u201d are in demand. There\u2019s no problem.<\/p>\n However, it is a problem when the author of the article uses manipulation and doesn\u2019t present reality. She does not clarify where the meeting between the Minister of Culture and the artists took place, thereby leaving the reader misinformed.<\/p>\n It turns out that \u201cthe Minister who has no time for those who work with true culture day and night in Armenia,\u201d finds the time to meet artists who \u201cpropagate the perverted.\u201d<\/p>\n Not a word was mentioned about what Violet Grigoryan suggested during the meeting with the Minister, or what was discussed by the artists. But the author of the article found it urgent to present a verse from Violet Grigoryan\u2019s poetry, furthermore, after apologizing to the pious reader, \u201csprout, sprout my little sprout, my tiny little throbber\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Who is the \u201cgenderholic and penis-loving\u201d Samvel Saghatelyan? For any reader who has no idea about the artist, the author of the article presents him thus: \u201cBack in 2013, when all the showrooms refused to display his vulgar photographs, which were dedicated to a strange combination of both female and male genders, to praise transvestites, to give them space under their roof, he finally managed to find shelter in the apartment of filmmaker Shahan Yuzbashyan, where he organized his underground and shameful exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n Why didn\u2019t the author of the article mention that architects Misak Khostikyan and journalist Arayik Manukyan were also present at the meeting with the Minister of Culture? Why did she pick out the poet Violet Grigoryan\u2019s work \u201csprout, sprout, my little sprout\u2026,\u201d and Samvel Saghatelyan\u2019s \u201cPhalluses?\u201d<\/p>\n The basis of the article was to manipulate the reader. The Minister of Culture is represented as one who promotes those who \u201cpropagate perversion\u201d and \u201cdesecrate art.\u201d<\/p>\n Arsine Khanjian is presented to those who may not be familiar with her artistic creations as an actress who \u201chas experience being filmed naked\u201d and Violet Grigoryan as \u201ca great master of swearing and pornography,\u201d painter Samvel Saghatelyan as \u201castonished by his own sexual organ,\u201d \u201cpenis-loving.\u201d<\/p>\n The author of the article labeled architect Misak Khostikyan and journalist Arayik Manukyan as \u201cnot having any material\u201d and therefore, did not need to address them, having completely forgotten about them.<\/p>\n As an organizer and moderator of the \u201cRevolution With Or Without Culture\u201d discussion, I apologize to all participants of the discussion for the article \u201cFor The Minister, A Standard For Being A Cultural Figure Is Propagating Perversion.\u201d<\/p>\n I am going to apply to the Media Ethics Observatory<\/a>, and expect its assessment.<\/p>\n Lilit Avagyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How can a journalist present a specific event in such a way that the reader does not receive any information about the content of the event, but succeeds in insulting specific people using manipulation and preaching intolerance? 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