When people submit their Curriculum Vitae (CV) to apply for a job, they, if it is a serious position, include a special section – communication skills. Why are they necessary? If the work in one way or another relates to people, then you need to be able to find common grounds with these people to implement your duties. This special subsection for the officials and lawmakers should include the culture to communicate with the media. Otherwise, it will be the interview of the acting mayor of Ijevan and re-elected Vardan Ghalumyan to 1in.am, which is a vivid example of neglecting the public, including his electorates. In fact, this negligence is punishable by the public. In the countries where there is a society.
The person in the position of a mayor and contending to this position should know that he has no right to answer the question of the journalist, “Hey, what do you have to do with it?” at the level of boyish-yard showdown, with a vocabulary, which apparently is accepted in the circles of this official. In fact, he is obligated to answer the question of the journalist, even if this question is too personal. But, in given case, the journalist’s questions were not personal. For example, the question of “Why have you moved from the PAP to RPA?” is totally normal for a political figure, and it implies that the latter should explain the journalist (and consequently, the citizens) as to why, in his opinion, RPA is better than PAP.
Secondly, the expression of “Hey, what do you have to do with it?” the mayor has said in response to a journalist’s question about why he does not wear the badge of the Republican Party. This question has made this “figure” become further furious. Can we assume that the “newly appointed” Republicans has not been “accustomed” to the symbols of his new party? Anyway, someone knowledgeable should have told him that when a journalist is asking a question, he/she does it not by his/her own but the media and, ultimately, the readers. In that case, the “figure”, possibly, in his own expression, would not be “exasperated” during the interview.
“They are coming instructively, take the money and begin throwing mud,” says the mayor about the journalists. It’s an old song that the politicians of Armenia, also the opposition members, like voicing it. It seems to me that it is a self-consolation, in other words, “Actually, I am so good that no question can be raised about me, with an exception of what my angelic nature is due to.” If another question is raised, then it is instructed.
“Who pays attention to what the journalists are writing, I do not pay attention at all,” says V. Ghalumyan in the same interview. I believe. But I do not think that it is right.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
