On the Internet news appeared from an unknown source that the Prime Minister had said that he would raise the minimum salary and make it 100 thousand AMD. Naive “Internet Armenians” believed the disinformation and “mercilessly spread” that lie. The most interesting was the fact that rather highly intellectual and educated people swallowed that bait and were actively discussing that “news” making assumptions about the time it would happen. Therefore, the problem is not that there are many websites that every minute “are inventing”, but the fact that there are not enough readers , who can easily distinguish between “wet and dry”. As in every issue, here also we should develop the culture of reading when the reader or the user understands which source is reliable and which one is not, which mass media is serious, and which one is a “light-hearted” one. The latter should also exist, let them evolve, prosper, enrich, accumulate “cliks”, it is typical. But it is unusual that people who read that and get pleasure, they do not understand that this mass media is for getting pleasure, that one is for receiving information and thinking.
Reading a book, a newspaper or a website is an art, finally this is a form of living, a form of communicating, which we choose. Personally the following is my preferred form; not to approach to any phenomenon, anyone with prejudice, with already formed “good-bad”, “right-wrong”, “sweet-bitter” view of dualism. But on the other hand, not to take any news for granted and always appreciate its reliability. Is it possible that tomorrow the minimum salary becomes 100 000 AMD? Yes, definitely, if it is possible. It is as possible as that someone will appear that would invest 500 million dollars in operating “Nairit” having quite vague prospective. It is also possible that at this moment a flying saucer descends on my computer and extraterrestrials with 20 cm height will come out. But you evaluate that news by reading it based on your personal “probability theory”. Developing more or less realistic “probability theory” is an indivisible part of the reading culture. Emotional evaluations “oh, they deceive me”, “why do they deceive me”, are meaningless, and all these questions in the end are of secondary importance. Primary should be the sober evaluation of the information… I also read in another place that Seryan Ohanyan enters politics. Unfortunately. it is possible.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
