HOW MUCH COSTS A MINUTE AT EURONEWS
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am
08/02/10
"Azerbaijani days" were declared at the Euronews channel. The channels
showed an interview with the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
where they presented the hard life of people who were forced to leave
Karabakh becoming refugees and who are currently waiting to return to
their homes thanking the Azerbaijani government for its assistance
but say that the best will be to return to their territories. And
the territories, according to Euronews, are occupied by Armenians.
When Euronews shows a report on Armenia or Karabakh, the Armenian
government presents it as a result of its constructive and initiative
policy and shows it every day. Such a thing happened lately when
Euronews showed a report on Karabakh and the Armenian official
propaganda was nearly to declare it as the start of Karabakh’s
membership to the European Union.
Now the Azerbaijani government is perhaps engaged in the same thing
and shows the Euronews report on different Azerbaijani channels
presenting it as an achievement of the Azerbaijani foreign policy
and an important step aimed at the return of the territories.
Euronews now probably wonders whether the Armenians do not want to
"order" a "counter report". And Armenia, apparently is trying to find
out whether Azerbaijan had paid more and raised the price for the
"objectivity" of Euronews or the situation is the same.
But this is not important, but the thinking of the Armenian and
Azerbaijani elite. They think that any interview in the influential
world media contributes to strengthening their political positions.
They think that interviews, articles in foreign media can change the
reality that they can solve some problems because the world centers
sit and watch TV and read newspapers to decide how to proceed.
Apparently, they think that the interests of the United States,
Russia, and Great Britain are formed solely from reading newspapers,
as is the case, apparently, in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Perhaps the elite of Armenia and Azerbaijan understand that all
is not so, but try to convince the society and "wash" its brains
at least for a week with the help of a report at Euronews or some
other channels, rather than to secure some real success within the
society. The international community prefers judging about conflicts,
including Karabakh, by the phenomena and events not in the newspapers,
but in the real life.
The calculation of interviews and reports in the foreign media is not
important because they do not change anything but the home situation
depending on the strength of the foreign policy does. By the way,
the question of Euronews to Ilham Aliyev about whether he feels the
king is the best proof of this. Although it is not excluded that the
Armenian elite is offended by Euronews for the fact that they did
not ask this question the Armenian leadership.