Years ago, in one of the villages, my table companions after emptying a certain dosage asked me, “Sing something to make us cry.” In our culture, I think, there is this waiting for such impulses that make us cry and then getting an aesthetic pleasure. This is why, perhaps, the negative information is better digested and disseminated among us than the positive. Even if it’s a lie. For example, if someone talks nonsense that the new Constitution allows homosexual marriages or that the names of the Avetisyans family murdered in Gyumri were included in the voters list, then this information is believed with great pleasure and refuting is already useless.
But if ordinary citizens are feeling pleasure by absorbing any negative information, which the political parties are disseminating based on their political interests, then the law enforcers are very skeptical towards such news. Moreover, in many cases their aim is to prove that it is a lie. Now, for example, they set a goal to “give the lie to” the media reports about the violations during the constitutional referendum. Officially, it’s called, “to go after the traces of mass media alerts.”
For this reason, the journalists are dragged for interrogations and asked senseless questions for hours so that to close the case successfully but to have several thick volumes. (Anna Israelyan, the online editor of Aravot, has already written about this subject). Let’s say, a journalist’s camera has fixed how a group of brutal looking young people broke into the polling station and made a fuss. This video appears on the website and on the Internet. The content of the interrogation is approximately as follows, “Why have you gone to this polling station?”, “Who had recalled you,” and so on. In other words, the journalist, in the end, should probably apologize for shooting such a “wrong thing”.
But the culmination of the imitation of intense activity is when information is demanded from the journalist about her covered press conference. “Can you provide additional details from the press conference where the X speaker was talking about the election violations?” Yeah, of course, I can. Among other 20 journalists, I went to a press club, took the recorder out of my pocket, put it on the table of the speaker, then sat in the chair in front of him, opened my notebook and began working. Afterward, I returned to the editorial and wrote my notes. It is a very important information to expose the election frauds.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
