In Post-Revolutionary Armenia, the Armenian Press is Not Keeping Pace with the People and the State: Anna Hakobyan

Prime Minister's wife Anna Hakobyan wrote on her Facebook page: "Especially today, I want to present a few excerpts from my speech at the opening of the Pan-Armenian Media Forum in Beirut on July 1 of this year:

... Reliable information, as it has been called, is a type that is disappearing from the pages of the press in our days, yielding its place to cheap sensations, worthless manipulations, the presentation of fictitious facts motivated by political expediency, and the imaginary analyses about them...

Today, in post-revolutionary Armenia, the Armenian press is not keeping pace with the people and the state; we are now enjoying the bitter fruits of the deep gap that has arisen between the media, the public, and the state each day. If we do not address the root solutions to our problems sooner rather than later, that gap will become deeper and deeper...

Nowadays, there is a huge distrust between the reader, that is the consumer of information, and the supplier of information, that is the press. It is no secret that Armenian media outlets feel great public pressure on them, which sometimes manifests itself in methods that cross the boundaries of what is acceptable, with insults and calls to close this or that newspaper or to boycott its online version..."