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The representative of the administration of the President of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov addressing a speech on the occasion of the 20th years anniversary of the little-known newspaper ‘The world of connection’ (Rabita Dunyasi) said that Azerbaijani mass media is leading in the world in terms of objectiveness and reliability.

The Azerbaijani website ‘contact.az’ replies to the official, who is regularly ascribing non-existing virtues to his country, ‘…let’s try to take this news seriously’.

The response to the words of the official was presented later. The news agency writes that if Hasanov meant the distribution of information, then indeed, there is no precise reason for dispute. The information is reported directly from the scenes of incident by all modern technical means: ‘cell phones, computers and other technological miracles’. Or the Minister of Foreign Affairs said something and immediately ‘his statement appears on-line in Azerbaijani, Russian and English’.

The website notes that it is correct that news are rarely checked, but they are received from the authors in the form of ‘he said’ very often, which is substantially different from ‘I said’.

As for the objectiveness then it is enough to view several ‘on-line’ publications and immediately see cheep jokes and analysis, which openly say that ‘Armenians are this way and that way and we are much better than them’ highlights the media.

The tactics of the authorities of Baku do not rebound any conditionality.

For instance, according to the same website ‘objective’ Azerbaijani mass media were not ashamed of screening a video material of a sexual nature about an Azerbaijani opposition member at the most busy hour.

Even such a thing as internet being perceived by the Azerbaijani authorities by personal ideas of freedom is used as a monopoly. And if Hasanov confirms that internet is free in their country and no one suffers for what he writes in his blog or elsewhere in internet, then he means exactly those approaches.

However, reality is different. For examples recently on September 29 blogger Zaur Gurbanli published on his page a textbook photo with Leyla Aliyeva’s poem and as ‘Turan’ news agency reports the blogger was immediately arrested by the Department of the fight against organized crime.

Or Hasanov says that ‘Mass media flourishes as never before’. It is said at the time when one of the leading newspapers of the country ‘Azadlig’ is brought to the edge of bankruptcy today, is persecuted by the authorities, which was talked about before in our article published on 12.11.2012.

Samvel Martirosyan

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