Daily Archives: December 11, 2007

Armenian Media Landscape Ahead of February 2008 Presidential Elections: An Overview

Ahead of February 2008 Presidential elections to be held in Armenia, the recent developments in the Armenian politics have greatly antagonized the Armenian media landscape, triggering a range of negative trends in the coverage of political, social, economic reporting issues.

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LTP VS SS: Excellent Provocation from Pigh

Without further comments, I want to present to your attention this excellent provocation-joke from PighFind 10 Differences:

Levon Ter-Petrossian
Education – humanities, weak analytical skills.
Hobby – part-time KGB agent
Brother – Oligarch
Manner of talking to the nation – cynical.
Memory – selective, especially regarding the period from 1991-1998. (remembers, that something happened, but doesn’t remember what exactly)
Karabakh – will surrender it at the upcoming races.
Sources of funding – oligarchic.
PR – is actively PRing Robik and Serzh

Serzh Sargsyan
Education – humanities, analytical skills – none.
Hobby – full-time KGB agent.
Brother – Oligarch
Manner of talking to the nation – cynical.
Memory – selective, especially regarding the period from 1991-1998. (doesn’t remember, that he was in power the whole time)
Karabakh – might lose it at the upcoming horse-races.
Sources of funding – oligarchic.
PR – is actively PR-in Levon.

The question is – if they are different sides of the same coin, what a hell do we need any of them for? Especially as I’m convinced more and more, that their activities are nicely synchronised, as if they’re both sitting at the same table, drinking coffee and discussing how to best confuse everybody about their would-be ideological differences. And we all look and enjoy being bamboozled…