{"id":14051,"date":"2017-12-05T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2017-12-05T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:05:08","slug":"abc-media-watch-program-criticises-puff-piece-on-azerbaijan-by-the-west-australian-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=14051","title":{"rendered":"ABC Media Watch program criticises puff piece on Azerbaijan by The West Australian [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PERTH: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation&#8217;s (ABC) Media Watch program has shone necessary light on the Consulate of Azerbaijan in Western Australia paying for a reporter to write a glossy feature on their petro-dictatorship, in which Baku is <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--> lavished with unrecognisable praise for its apparent similarities to Perth, among other outlandish claims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During its 4th December program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/transcripts\/s4775255.htm\">(WATCH VIDEO REPORT BY CLICKING HERE)<\/a>, Media Watch host Paul Barry described the article published by The West Australian as &#8220;puff &#8230; about a trade mission to a celebrated Central Asian dictatorship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barry said: &#8220;Haven\u2019t heard of the affair between WA and Azerbaijan? Nor had we, until the West devoted a three-page spread to the exciting news, telling us: &#8216;there are some striking similarities between Perth and Baku. Both are secular, well-educated societies with a love for good food and wine and a quirky appreciation of Eurovision&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added: &#8220;And, of course, they\u2019re both freedom-loving democracies. Although, bizarrely, in 2013 Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev was so popular that he was voted in for a third term before the polls even opened. And so popular that, two years later, the major opposition parties didn\u2019t even bother showing up, with the BBC noting: &#8216;In the past two years the Azeri authorities have jailed almost all critical voices, among them journalists, civil society activists, and human rights lawyers&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;None of that made it into the West\u2019s three-page feature, and nor did we learn that the country ranks 162 out of 180 on the World Press Freedom Index, behind Iraq and Egypt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barry continued his assault: &#8220;But what about corruption, I hear you ask, which is something that businessmen do need to know about? Down in the 47th paragraph, The West Australian assured us they\u2019re sorting all that out: &#8216;\u2026 the Government has made a concerted effort to address perceptions of corruption, following Azerbaijan\u2019s 119th ranking out of 168 countries \u2014 alongside Russia \u2014 in the World Bank\u2019s Transparency International\u2019s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;And that\u2019s before this year\u2019s scandal about the Azerbaijani Laundromat, in which $2.9 billion was laundered out of the country into offshore bank accounts of Azerbaijani leaders or to pay off friendly European politicians and sympathetic journalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barry then unveiled that the trip by the journalist who wrote the article was &#8220;paid for by the Azerbaijan Consulate&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barry concluded his segment with the following words: &#8220;Now, we\u2019re not suggesting that The West Australian has had millions of dollars pumped through its bank accounts, but accepting free flights and hotels from a corrupt country that locks up journalists, and then ignoring or downplaying the country\u2019s problems, is not a good look.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The West Australian disagrees and says it did cover the country\u2019s problems adequately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ancaustralia\/\">Armenian National Committee of Australia<\/a> (ANC-AU) has written to The West Australian, strongly criticising their disregard for their role serving as Australia&#8217;s Fourth Estate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The glossing over of such an blatant example of a corrupt oil dictatorship, where the President has recently appointed his wife as his deputy and has been engulfed in pay-for-say scandals covering the globe, by a newspaper said to be reporting in the interests of Australians is plainly unacceptable,&#8221; said ANC-AU Managing Director, Vache Kahramanian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kahramanian added: &#8220;Azerbaijan not only breaks international norms of decency, it also disregards the OSCE Minsk Group&#8217;s negotiated ceasefire with the Armenians of the Armenian Republic of Artsakh, killing soldiers and civilians with condemnable regularity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are calling on The West Australian to retract their deeply offensive and inaccurate article.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERTH: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation&#8217;s (ABC) Media Watch program has shone necessary light on the Consulate of Azerbaijan in Western Australia paying for a reporter to write a glossy feature on their petro-dictatorship, in which Baku is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-14051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-australia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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