– Umud bey, you talked about positive sides of media, but negatives sides also disturbs us. Arrested journalists, for example.<\/p>\n
Yes, we have problems. However, we should note one point. As you know, two journalists, Qenimet Zahid and Mirze Sakit were freed from prison for two weeks to participate in their father\u2019s funeral. This step was welcomed by the society. Moreover, this is in the agenda of Azerbaijan Press Council. You know, as a civil society we must learn to abide by rules. It should be noted that, press organs doing their job professionally almost do not face any difficulties. Obviously, problems rise where politics and ill-will have prevalence.<\/p>\n
– You want to say that, politicizing and ill-will of press organs is the reason of pressures they face\u2026<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s do not discuss things one-sided. Today\u2019s press condition in our republic is obvious. Newspaper opens, then it turns out that, this newspaper serves for a political purpose with a politician\u2019s ambition. In order to make sustainable any press organ, founders should put enough resources. Pressures are not the unique problems in our media. Construction of professional mechanism will gradually eliminate these problems. Journalist should do his job promptly. You well enough know our media problems.<\/p>\n
– What are the roots of these problems? Who is responsible for this? Authority or newspaper owners?<\/p>\n
These problems are in parallel with our society\u2019s problems. Our society is the same as our media. I have been working for media since 1980s. I had lead department and I had been one of the main authors in a well-known newspaper. Huge difference in media between 80th and today exits. Nowadays media loses its influence. We cannot preserve those past days influence. An ordinary journalist from a newspaper had a big respect. Any article was seriously analyzed, discussed and, only then published. However, today 90% percent of today\u2019s articles are not analyzed and are published indiscriminately. All these negative cases diminish our reputation. Nevertheless, I deeply believe that, orders and steps that have been made in order to improve our journalism will eliminate existing problems. Especially, our president\u2019s order on improving mass media\u2019s condition in our country. I know that, journalists have a lot of problems, and they have low salary. All these concern and bother us. My salary was 600 ruble and honorary of about 400-500. This was enough for me to travel half of the world. Our press is not heartwarming in our country. We almost have no sustainable newspapers. Only a few newspapers can satisfy worker\u2019s social problems. I would like our newspapers to be sustainable and financially strong. I reckon many projects will be implemented on this direction.<\/p>\n
– How do you think, could journalists that are arrested be freed?<\/p>\n
This is an agenda for us. President is able to decree pardon. Press council has done and will do everything for it. I think this will find its solution in an immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Umud Rahimoglu: \u201cIn 2009 financial condition of newspapers will improve\u201d
\nAzerbaijan Press Council has recently discussed its annual activity. Members valued its work as sufficient. Deputy Chairman of Azerbaijan Press Council and at the same time chairman of IEPF speaks optimistically about Council\u2019s situation, problems and success.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is hard to say something in definite terms. However, it is the fact that there is a conception of \u201cGovernmental Support to Mass Media\u201d signed by our president. Many positive steps have been carried out on it. For the next year it is planned by government to make assistance and give subsidies. Therefore, \u201cGovernmental support to mass media\u201d should be estimated as extraordinary initiative. I reckon these kinds of steps will help the Azerbaijan Media to develop. Coming to problems, at the last meeting of Press Council 36 newspapers existing in Azerbaijan were declared as \u201creket\u201d ones. We wouldn\u2019t want to divulge their names on a holiday night. But within the next days we will make the community to be aware of these newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}