Two employees of the “Hour” news release over Armenia TV channel, the journalist and author of the material and the editor of the broadcast, are dismissed for writing and broadcasting the caption under the name of the Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan as “Havik”.
The Director of “Armenia” TV Company News Programs Gagik Mkrtchyan said to Aravot.am that the incident should not be given a political motive. “It was just a misprint, there was no malicious intent, and the offenders are already dismissed.” To our question of whether they had received any reprimand from the Prime Minister, he said, no. To our question of whether it is possibly the attitude of the employee of the TV company towards the Prime Minister to write Havik in the caption instead of Hovik, Mr. Mkrtchyan said, “Absolutely no, the whole problem is that they are the very journalist and editor, who always cover and edit the materials of the National Assembly, this is really a misprint.”
Aprine SIMONYAN
