HACK WRITER’S DESTINY: POOPING AS EVALUATION OF HIS "TALENTS"

news.az
Dec 28 2009
Azerbaijan

Matthew Collin There are journalistic articles after reading which
you get a lot of new information for yourself.

There are articles that form a new outlook on some events thanks to
the brilliant analytical conclusions of journalists. Unfortunately,
there are also attempts to set up something false for analytics or
a new article. The absence of analytical skills and fresh news are
compensated with a false information that has nothing to do with
analytics or a new article.

Such a material was presented to Moscow times readers. An article
"A Year of President for Life and Bird Poop" has been written
by a certain Matthew Collin. This was not an opinion but the use
of banal phrases without an attempt to go deeper into each of the
situations described by the journalist. The first truism from Collin
lies in his saying that 2009 was not remembered for a new senseless
war. The phrase about senselessness of war is not quite correct when
one implies the attempt of any country to restore its territorial
integrity and release the occupied lands. The journalist’s phrase
sounds especially absurd when attributed to the Armenian-Azerbaijani
conflict. In 2009 Armenian continued ignoring numerous documents and
resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council and General Assembly,
OSCE, PACE and other international organizations that demand withdrawal
of Armenian troops from the occupied Azerbaijani lands and return of
refugees to their homeland.

In conditions when there is an obvious ignoring of the demands of the
world community about the ways of the peace settlement of the Karabakh
conflict by one of the parties, the phrase about senselessness of war
at least sounds odd and absurd. I want to know how Matthew Collin would
have acted if the fifth part of his flat was occupied by neighbors
backed by more influential forces and these neighbors do not obey
numerous decisions of the courts that fix that this flat is fully
Matthew’s and that the neighbors occupying it must leave? In other
words, we see it clearly that this journalist fails in finding the
necessary phrase. I would like to inform him that a war can be either
successful or unsuccessful, it can be quick or protracted, bloody or
with minimal number of victims, but it is by no way senseless. At
least there is a sense in return of Azerbaijani lands occupied by
Armenians. There is also a sense in the triumph of international
law over separatism. Unfortunately, Matthew Collin’s article has
earlier been filled with a thesis that sound ridiculous. For example,
he voiced the truism that the normalization of the Turkish-Armenian
protocols is a positive event of the passing year.

Meanwhile, Matthew Collin again demonstrated incompetence in the
issue by not saying that during his visit to the United States
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said it would be difficult for
Turkey to settle issues with Armenians without progress in Karabakh
settlement. Thus, the Turkish Premier disavowed numerous statements
of several representatives of official Yerevan who said there is no
link between normalization of the Turkish-Armenian relations and the
resolution of the Karabakh conflict. But this was not mentioned in
Matthew Collin’s article. What is it – a purposeful selection of facts,
dilettantism or an open bias? This is for you to judge. Meanwhile,
I come to a conclusion that in any case this is unfavorable not only
for the journalist but also for the edition he works for. After reading
Matthew Collin’s article, you come to understand that all his attempts
to judge the internal political situation in Azerbaijan is the next
voicing of hackneyed criticism of our country that has nothing to do
with the attempt to go deeper into each point of this criticism. With
this "bunch of talents" one can claim for a position of a trainee
in a third-rate edition rather than for the role of an impartial,
thinking and strong journalist. This fact can be the main conclusion
of Moscow times about Matthew Collin in 2009 and the result of these
conclusions may be a pooping for him.