{"id":164476,"date":"2012-02-27T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=164476"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:54:40","slug":"no-political-subtext-in-economists-interview-not-being-aired-armnews-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/27\/no-political-subtext-in-economists-interview-not-being-aired-armnews-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"No Political Subtext in Economist&#8217;s Interview Not Being Aired: ArmNews TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ArmNews TV didn&#8217;t air the interview with economist and Armenian National Congress member Movses Aristakesyan for no reason other than that there were problems with the sound, a company representative told Epress.am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, on Feb. 24, Aristakesyan had informed Epress.am that his interview with the TV station wasn&#8217;t aired because he criticized the economic policies adopted by state authorities. The opposition bloc member <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/24\/armnews-tv-didnt-air-my-interview-because-i-criticized-armenian-authorities-says-economist.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">also charged<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> that prior to the interview, he was asked not to criticize the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Aristakesyan had also pointed out that he had encountered a similar issue before. In another interview to ArmNews two months ago, he criticized the policy adopted by the country\u2019s prime minister. This interview, which, according to Aristakesyan, was to have been aired eight times, was broadcast only twice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost likely at first they weren\u2019t attentive, that I had criticized [a state official], but then seeing it, they took it off air,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArmNews TV didn&#8217;t air the interview with economist and Armenian National Congress member Movses Aristakesyan for no reason other than that &#8230;.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}