When it comes to journalism, the politicized approaches are unacceptable for me. Professionalism requires that if you do not like, let’s say, Kocharyan or Amalyan, you should not have an aversion to contact with them (if such an opportunity appears), you should not select only news in the newsfeed describing them negatively and turn your blind eye to the events and occurrences, which can also describe these people from the positive aspect.
Any person and any occurrence is a “material” for journalism to make it an interesting story. The same Putin and of Kremlin’ policy: it is wrong when you collect the blasphemy around the world voiced against them (naturally, there is no shortage of it) and do not present, let’s say, Mikhail Leontiev’s or Andranik Mihranyan’s opinion no matter you disagree with them.
On the contrary, when it comes to the formation of the government, the political component is very desirable. A technocrat, meritocracy, hired employee cannot fully take responsibility for his possible failures. He can say, “You hired me and I did everything in my power, well, it did not work out, I’m sorry, I going back to my work.” It is preferable for him to be a member of the political team, this team should formulate its vision several years ahead of the elections, campaign it for years, and in the case of winning, try to fulfill it. In that case, it is not mandatory for the minister of economy be an economist and the finance minister a financial officer. They should be political figures who having this vision in mind would hire economists and financial officers. If these specialists do not work well, they can be substituted by other specialists.
This, certainly, is an ideal option, which is not always successful in using, and this is the case not only in Armenia. But in our country, we talk about the technocrats, non-party members and specialists only in the case when the confidence in the ruling party is great. Perhaps, this was the reason why the first president appointed non-PANM prime ministers Armen Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan, or Serzh Sargsyan – non-RPA prime minister Tigran Sargsyan (who, truly, later became a Republican) and Karen Karapetyan. This is, of course, a double-edged weapon. On the one hand, it is good that these people do not cause negative emotions as non-party members, on the other hand, they must receive the support of the ruling party, which may not be in the case of not your “own man”. Two good things never happen at the same time.
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
