MINISTRY OF CULTURE SHOULD CONTROL TV BROADCASTS, RUBEN HAKHVERDIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 06 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 6, NOYAN TAPAN. "Today many things are distorted, as
any kind of mediocrities enter into television and TV air is filled
with Turkish and Arab melodies, idiotic humor broadcasts," composer
of songs Ruben Hakhverdian stated at the March 6 meeting held at the
Hayeli (Mirror) club.

In his words, television should propagandize only Armenian and
non-distorted culture. R. Hakhverdian considers that RA Ministry
of Culture and Youth Affairs should undertake measures and control
TV broadcasts, as such tasteless broadcasts have especially great
influence on under-aged, 10-14-year-old children. "Songs play a great
role in the issue of preservation of Armenian language and Armenian
nation, but first of all singers "make dirty" the language by bleating
songs in unintelligible Armenian, which is not characteristic of
Armenian. I think a Frenchman will never permit himself such a thing,
as he respects his language," R. Hakhverdian said adding that "if we
lose our language, we will lose our culture." In the words of singer
Shushan Petrosian, the majority of her colleagues does not have their
own image and tries to be like another one, from which, in her words,
first of all art suffers. As S. Petrosian affirmed, we should return
to our national sources and preserve the values we had got before.