According to data available, a great number of Armenian young people have sent letters to the editorial office of New York Times in view of the article published in the newspaper on December 9. The young people say that chief editor of the Istanbul office of the newspaper Susan Sachs violated the journalistic ethics by distorting the words of the students, whom she was interviewing without warning that their photos and information about their income will be published. “Your article does not reflect the our viewpoint in whole. It would be very advisable if the newspaper published an article, which could reflect alternative points of view”, one of the letters says. A lot of letters were addressed to Susan Sachs as well. Meanwhile despite obvious violations of journalistic and human ethics and norms of human rights Miss Sachs published another article on Armenia on December 15, which says, in part, “As winter closes in, bringing the risk of new hardships in a country heavily dependent on imports and foreign aid, the prospects for change appear slim without outside intervention”
Let alone the fact that a nature phenomenon called winter cannot bring any special hardships to Armenia in contrast to Georgia, which is experiencing energy crisis at present and the example of which inspires “professional journalist” Susan Sachs, the phrase about outside intervention sounds rather odd and far-fetched. With the promise to follow Sachs’s further works, we placed the complete version of the material prepared by Karen Vardanesian and published in yesterday’s number of “Golos Armenii” newspaper in the Library of our site.
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