IGOR MURADYAN: IT IS NOT STRANGE THAT ARMENIAN POPULATION DO NOT TRUST IN MASS MEDIA

ArmInfo
2009-03-17 13:15:00

ArmInfo. ‘In Armenia it is absolutely impossible to talk to the
press. One can expect for sure that everything said in an interview
will be mutilated and presented in a wrong way. When giving an
interview one has to prepare a disproof in advance’, the known Armenian
political expert, Igor Muradyan, told ArmInfo correspondent.

‘Such distortion of reality is evidence of bias and corruptibility of
mass media, against which certain back-alley tasks are put. On 16 March
I had a telephone talk to the correspondent of A1+ website about the
forthcoming Yerevan mayor election. Everything found on the website
and mentioned as my words is a lie. They were trying to present me as
the opposition supporter. A little bit earlier, in other mass media
I was presented as the supporter of the authorities’, – he said.

Muradyan said that after such opuses of some local journalists he
is not surprised that Armenian population have no reason to trust
in Armenian mass media. ‘I am sorry for the people that work in the
press. They are very much materially dependent and in fact unhappy
people which are made to play unfair games. Different politicians
and experts told me many times that they had come across with such
phenomena in Armenia, but preferred not to raise a claim so that not
to draw extra attention to this lie. This is also the way out if one
comes across total falsehood’, – Muradyan said.

He also added certainly there are very honest mass media in Armenia
to cooperate with. But one has to understand that above mentioned
falsehood will exist as long as shameful fight for power, not limited
by any taboo, is lasting.

Touching on the Azerbaijani press Muradyan said it is a solid stream
of absurd.