{"id":8067,"date":"2017-05-04T01:53:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T01:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/sometimes-the-subjective-is-more-accurate-ara-shirinyan\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T01:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T01:53:53","slug":"sometimes-the-subjective-is-more-accurate-ara-shirinyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2017\/05\/04\/8067\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the Subjective is More Accurate: Ara Shirinyan"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Armenia, World Press Freedom Day, May 3, is marked with the Time for Freedom of Press<\/a> award ceremony. The award was founded in 2006 by the Yerevan Press Club, Media Initiatives Center [also responsible for this site], and the Journalists\u2019 Union of Armenia.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the Time for Freedom of Press award was given to filmmaker Ara Shirinyan \u2014 for professional integrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwards can\u2019t encourage me because I\u2019m trained in my work, I know what I\u2019m doing, I do as much as I can, and I will do as much as I can,\u201d says the filmmaker. <\/p>\n

He confesses that opportunities and possibilities are needed for young journalists’ development. \u201cThe older generation has its share of responsibility in this matter. We must help them demonstrate themselves and become established.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shirinyan doesn\u2019t have a creative credo. He says if he had one rule, his work wouldn\u2019t be interesting. \u201cI can attach importance to the specific, smallest details because they\u2019re more expressive, more influential than text. Generally, emotions can have a more profound effect than logic.\u201d The subtlety of a documentarian\u2019s work, in his opinion, is reflecting such concepts in their films.<\/p>\n

In his films, Shirinyan doesn\u2019t particularly adhere to objectivity. \u201cSometimes the subjective is more accurate than the objective; it\u2019s just that it\u2019s a matter of your ethics. The rule of objectivity has long stopped being applied in journalism; they skillfully manipulate with streams of information and make this a necessity. Violating objectivity is inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

2017 World Press Freedom Day has identified three main topics: importance of justice for press freedom, importance of the media in advancing peace and mutual understanding, and ensuring greater participation of the public in the media.<\/p>\n

Actually, this day is a good opportunity not only to praise the journalism community\u2019s achievements, but also to talk about problems. Developments in the world complicate the work of journalists, but this doesn\u2019t mean that we should surrender. We must fight for freedom of expression every day.<\/p>\n

Gayane Asryan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Armenia, World Press Freedom Day, May 3, is marked with the Time for Freedom of Press award ceremony. The award was founded in 2006 by the Yerevan Press Club, Media Initiatives Center [also responsible for this site], and the Journalists\u2019 Union of Armenia. In 2017, the Time for Freedom of Press award was given Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-gayane-asryan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}