{"id":253518,"date":"2014-05-19T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253518"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:51:53","slug":"singer-mp-shushan-petrosyan-called-journalists-immoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/19\/singer-mp-shushan-petrosyan-called-journalists-immoral.html","title":{"rendered":"Singer, MP Shushan Petrosyan Called Journalists &#8220;Immoral&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Singer, Republican Party of Armenia MP Shushan Petrosyan (pictured) today insulted Ruzanna Stepanyan, a journalist with RFE\/RL&#39;s Armenian service, when the latter asked her to&nbsp;comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/19\/wounded-in-saturdays-vernissage-shooting-still-in-icu.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>shooting<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that occurred on Saturday near the &quot;Vernissage&quot; market in Yerevan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;You&#39;re immoral, you&#39;re all immoral,&quot; Petrosyan said, pointing to members of the media standing near her.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBefore uttering these words, the lawmaker asked the audio recorder to be turned off.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThen, <em>Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun<\/em> newspaper reporter Melanya Tsarukyan approached Petrosyan, but the latter didn&#39;t allow her to ask her any questions, saying: &quot;Get out of here!&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJournalists accredited in parliament are currently discussing whether to collect signatures and appeal to the National Assembly Ethics Commission.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, this is not the first time a Member of Parliament has insulted journalists. In December 2013, MP Arakel Movsisyan called journalists who organized a protest in parliament &quot;monkeys&quot;.<\/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>&#8220;You&#8217;re immoral, you&#8217;re all immoral,&#8221; Petrosyan said, pointing to members of the media standing near her. <!-- 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":253502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253518"}],"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=253518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}