AZG Armenian Daily #105, 09/06/2005

Mass media

MARGARITA SIMONIAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF RUSSIAN CNN

By the end of the year the Russian version of CNN will open in Russia. It
will be called “Russia Today TV.” Gazeta e-newspaper informed that the new
state TV will unfold anti-revolutionary propaganda, if the events in Ukraine
threat Russia. Margarita Simonian, editor-in-chief of “Russia Today TV,”
told journalists that they are going to be an independent mass media. “In
the beginning we will represent the official position that says that black
is white, then our expert will discuss it, saying that white is black and
only after Socrat will add that both are right,” Margarita Simonian said.

“Russia Today TV” will broadcast twenty-four-hour news, sports, business,
weather report and documentary films just like BBC and CNN do. 80% of the
journalists will be foreign reporters. The Armenian journalist work at the
Russian ORT and RTR TVs. She has been mainly highlighting the visits of
Putin in Russian and in foreign countries during the last few years.