American diplomat, Henry Kissinger said \u201c 90% of politicians are ruining the reputation of the remaining 10%.\u201d<\/p>\n
By repackaging that statement, one can accurately describe today\u2019s Armenian press. 90% of the media is ruining the reputation of the remaining 10%.<\/p>\n
This happens mostly in the context of the responsibility of the press to \u201coversee the government.\u201d This function in it of itself is compulsory and useful, especially for the new government. But the problem here is different.<\/p>\n
The press has almost not noticed that the authorities have changed.<\/p>\n
Of course, the media covered the process of the power shift, in some cases even participated in the revolution, but they haven\u2019t come to a conclusion yet. From a formal point of view for the press, there is no difference as to who they are overseeing, the dictatorial corrupt regime or the government that came to power at the demand of the people. But from a professional and ethical perspective, there are a number of problems here.<\/p>\n
First of all, journalistic skills and tools, which have been erased by the previous government in order to keep track of it, they can\u2019t have the same effectiveness in the case of new authority with different roots.<\/p>\n
The best example is the photo news<\/a> of \u201cHraparak,\u201d where the journalist, secretly taking photos of the newly appointed state official in a cafe, and asking questions about wasting work hours, and wasting taxpayers\u2019 funds. Two days later this official was exposed in large-scale corruption offenses and facts o f illegal income.<\/p>\n Th readers immediately noticed the blunt instrument, with which the media was trying to \u201coperate on\u201d a healthy child. Under their angry comments, the editor of the daily newspaper wrote \u201cThe journalist saw it, he recorded it, he did well, he did the right thing. We have always done so\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n The number of swears and threats expressed towards the media outlet speaks about the need for yet another revolution to take place in the media.<\/p>\n \u201cHraparak\u201d appealed<\/a> to the members of the government, demanding to protect the media from readers. \u201cBeware of those who have become \u2018zombies\u2019 as a result of the revolution, and your activists who have lost their sense of size and fakes.\u201d<\/p>\n The statement<\/a> from the Human Rights Defender followed, which \u201cno state body has responded to this phenomenon with the official position.\u201d<\/p>\n As we can see, in this story, Little Red Riding Hood eats the Wolf. The same editor places a period by saying that \u201cthe press has a more important role in the life of our government, than the premature government\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, society basically gives the press the authority to control the authorities. However, in the new situation, the Armenian reader doesn\u2019t quite trust the press. There are serious reasons for that.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s press has shaped its peculiarities through the efforts of the previous authorities. The emergence of a large number of media had the aim of creating an imitation of free media. <\/p>\n As a result, the voices of a number of opposition media were dissolved in the information noise, so that no political thought, idea, text or individual could influence the public.<\/p>\n Simultaneously, a false reality was created that shifted the attention of the public and the press, concealing the tremendous amount of state looting and corruption. That press had (perhaps they still do) its political patron and a nickname which is based on it.<\/p>\n Was the activities of the press really not the result of the atmosphere, of violence and hate which had established itself in Armenia, the collapse of the system of values, and as a result, the enormous amount of emigration? How could that system survive without media support for 20 years?<\/p>\n Today, the press continues to mechanically reproduce the logic of the former authorities-society communication logic, memories, knowledge and the emotional background.<\/p>\n The danger is that such a press will eventually force the new authorities to repeat the mistakes of the past, close up, abandon the new-born traditions of transparent governance.<\/p>\n Perhaps that is the reason why the new government has chosen to communicate directly with the public from the very first day, bypassing the rusty pipes that the media unavoidably distort meanings, one-sided emphasis, irregular inaccuracies.<\/p>\n After all, we all know that there is a press release and there\u2019s a publication title. Their discrepancies are almost always deliberate, if not immoral.<\/p>\n Today, the media is based on material computing, providing views and likes. It does not have an aversion to using people\u2019s weaknesses, promote low quality debates, feeding intolerance and cynicism.<\/p>\n Perhaps the media controls the government, but not itself.<\/p>\n All this also includes low-paid, and often not competent journalistic shots, whose professional training in our catastrophic universities have been specifically adapted to the needs of the \u201cold press.\u201d<\/p>\n It is not accidental, that in press releases, often journalists\u2019 personal opinions become an excuse for information, unverified news or rumors, he basis of irresponsible accusations.<\/p>\n As for the fact that media managers themselves may complain<\/a> about \u201cinformation garbage\u201d is simply staggering.<\/p>\n By the way, the function of overseeing the authorities does not just mean criticism.<\/p>\n The main function of the press is informing (in a properly and timely manner), interpreting (based on analysis, investigation, expert opinion, witness testimony, etc.). Based on which the journalists can also criticize the authorities.<\/p>\n Instead, the Armenian media has successfully mastered what is internationally accepted as wrong, post-truth tactics, according to which the false news, even after being refuted, is circulated in many different ways, so that it remains in the emotional memory of the people, replacing the truth. This is an information warfare tool that our media uses against our own people inside the country.<\/p>\n That which media managers call \u201cthe atmosphere of intolerance\u2026.rom different groups of society\u201d is actually the assessment of their work.<\/p>\n The mentality has changed in Armenia, and it is natural that he first requirement should have been having a responsible press of a new quality, with new knowledge.<\/p>\n Ara Shirinyan American diplomat, Henry Kissinger said \u201c 90% of politicians are ruining the reputation of the remaining 10%.\u201d By repackaging that statement, one can accurately describe today\u2019s Armenian press. 90% of the media is ruining the reputation of the remaining 10%. 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