{"id":8448,"date":"2016-04-22T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2016-04-22T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T22:17:06","slug":"krekorian-calls-on-l-a-to-cancel-wall-street-journal-subscriptions-for-printing-ads-denying-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"Krekorian Calls on L.A. to Cancel Wall Street Journal Subscriptions for Printing Ads Denying the Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>No corporation should profit from Genocide Denial\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ASBAREZ) LOS ANGELES\u2014Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian \u2013 a descendent of Armenian Genocide survivors \u2013 introduced <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--> a motion on Friday directing all Los Angeles City offices to cancel their subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers for printing full-page ads paid for by groups dedicated to denying the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe actions of the Wall Street Journal are far worse than complacency,\u201d said Councilmember Krekorian. \u201cBy allowing a shadowy organization to buy ad space and perpetuate noxious, unsupported views that ignore the systematic killing of 1.5 million Armenians, they are complicit in genocide denial. Until they apologize to the community, give equal space to truth-based advertising, and change their ad policies once and for all, the City of Los Angeles will not support them. We cannot subsidize genocide denial with our tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe fully support the initiative taken by Councilmember Paul Krekorian and the Los Angeles City Council in holding accountable those media outlets who are willing to sell their principles to the highest bidder,\u201d said Nora Hovsepian, Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ANCAWesternRegion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenian National Committee of America, Western Region<\/a>. \u201cArmenian Genocide denial is not a political or business commodity, and Turkish denialists should not be given a forum to spew their lies. No one would sell ad space for any price to the Holocaust deniers in Iran, and this double standard should not be tolerated. We call on all subscribers of newspapers which print Genocide denialist ads to send a clear message of protest by canceling their subscriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On April 20, just four days before the world commemorates Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, in honor of the 1.5 million Armenians who were tortured, starved, killed and forced into exile by the Ottoman Empire, the Wall Street Journal \u2013 the business paper of record in the United States \u2013 accepted tens of thousands of dollars from \u201cFact Check Armenia,\u201d a website that perpetuates the vicious lie that the Armenian Genocide did not occur. \u201cFact Check Armenia\u201d launched a nationwide ad campaign to cast doubt on facts that people throughout the world recognize as indisputably true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When faced with a public backlash from Americans of all backgrounds, the Wall Street Journal issued a pathetic response: \u201cWe accept a wide range of advertisements, including those with provocative viewpoints. While we review ad copy for issues of taste, the varied and divergent views expressed belong to the advertisers.\u201d This contrasts with the New York Times, whose guidelines stipulate that \u201cevents such as the World Trade Center bombings, or the Holocaust, or slavery in the United States, or the Armenian Genocide or Irish Famine cannot be denied or trivialized in an advertisement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Krekorian\u2019s motion also orders City of LA offices to cancel subscriptions to other newspapers that published ads from the same denialist organization, including the Chicago Tribune (owned by LA Times parent company, Tribune Publishing) and the San Jose Mercury News (owned by LA Daily News parent company, Digital First Media). A genocide denial billboard placed in Boston earlier this month was removed after a community uproar caused Clear Channel to take it down, calling it an \u201cerror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motion was seconded by Councilmembers Mitch O\u2019Farrell, Nury Martinez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, David Ryu and Council President Herb Wesson Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Photo: Paul Krekorian speaking this month at a candle light vigil in solidarity with Artsakh at City Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No corporation should profit from Genocide Denial\u2019 (ASBAREZ) LOS ANGELES\u2014Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian \u2013 a descendent of Armenian Genocide survivors \u2013 introduced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,115],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news-","category-news","tag-anca-western-region"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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