{"id":10199,"date":"2018-09-03T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/on-the-scene-karlen-aslanyan\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:52:02","slug":"on-the-scene-karlen-aslanyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/on-the-scene\/2018\/09\/03\/10199\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Scene: Karlen Aslanyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2005, when Karlen Aslanyan was a student at the Yerevan State University\u2019s Faculty of Journalism, he came to RFE\/RL (Azatutyun), passed a probation period with the Max Liberty Youth program, and then began his journalistic career from there. He chose his profession from the age of 12-13 years old though.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn school I was interested in politics, I would read printed press, if I skipped class it would be so I could&nbsp;go to rallies. I already knew that I would become a journalist. During the entrance exam, I was one of the few applicants who only selected one faculty in my application.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9-4TyXJdhU\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Karlen Aslanyan is a candidate of philological sciences and teaches journalism at Yerevan State University. In RFL\/RE (Azatutyun), he initially prepared materials on youth topics. In the 2000\u2019s, he began to cover lawsuits filed against newspapers and made a shift from covering litigations to politics. He considers the political rallies which followed the 2008 presidential elections as a more serious school of journalism.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDuring the protests and rallies, you are being molded as a journalist, you learn how to ask questions, to work in emergency situations, to recognize people, politicians. And the 2008 rallies stuck out by the size of the crowds, large-scale rallies of this kind hadn\u2019t happened in a long time. Generally, with the return of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, much has changed in the field of political culture, struggle and activism. It was a novelty for us, and I think my generation\u2019s journalists have passed an important school, and I consider myself as one of those students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Aside from rallies, Karlen considers elections to be juicy material for journalists, including presidential, parliamentary and finally the City Council. In his opinion, the \u201cKhorenatsi Events\u201d were a new and unpredictable situation for journalists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1818\/43070540874_d6bc3b6fe8_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cPeople that we knew, that we had previously held dozens of interviews with, were standing on the other side of the fence with weapons. Then there were the well-known cases of violence against journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the case of the Velvet Revolution, Karlen points out the unpredictability of the events.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor the first time in 2018, protests gave results. A person, with whom we were walking on the streets, running after him, with whom we sat on the floor with to have interviews, today we address as \u2018Mr. Prime Minister.\u2019 This is something that had no precedent, something that our generation has witnessed.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/856\/43070541124_5bb1df0685_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Karlen says that when reporting during emergency situations there is no time to prepare and journalists must be guided by their experience, abilities and knowledge. At the same time, he finds it very important for the journalist &nbsp;\u201cnot to lose their sense of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cExperience shows that the stones placed on either side&nbsp;of the scale can place the journalist into a deadlock situation. On one side there\u2019s \u2018Office Journalism,\u2019 living in that world, and not seeing any other reality. And on the other side, democratic, I would even go so far as to say popular or populist journalism, which may be externally colorful an interesting, but again leads to a deadlock. We are the ones transmitting the \u2018golden medium\u2019 to the people, as soon as we lose our sense of reality, journalistic qualities will suffer a great fall.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sona Kocharyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, when Karlen Aslanyan was a student at the Yerevan State University\u2019s Faculty of Journalism, he came to RFE\/RL (Azatutyun), passed a probation period with the Max Liberty Youth program, and then began his journalistic career from there. 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