Baku/10.04.20/Turan: In an interview with the Mattbuat Club (Press Club) program of the Baku Press Club project, the director of the Turan news agency positively assessed the dismissal of Executive Director of the State Media Support Fund Vyugar Safarli and chair of the National Council on Television and Radio Nushirevana Maharramli.
Their activity for many years was characterized by a decline in the media and a loss of audience. Aliyev noted that the newly appointed leaders of these state structures were never noticed by their speeches, opinions on pressing media issues. It becomes clear that it was important for higher authorities to remove the fined Safarli and Maharramli, who were the protégés of the former head of the public affairs department political issues of the Administration of President Ali Hasanov.
In this case, everything will depend on the political course in relation to the media that the government will choose, Aliyev said.
According to him, the authorities today are not ready for radical changes, that is, to provide freedom of the media, as they fear that they will not be able to control them, and such media will become an alternative for them.
However, Aliyev believes that the recent personnel changes in state structures that determine media policy and in a number of controlled TVs indicate that the authorities are concerned about the loss of communication with the audience and are trying to regain confidence. The process of improving media relations and power slows down the desire of the authorities to control and the desire of society to have a free press.
Today, there are two parallel information fields - the media in the face of TV, radio, media sites, print media and social networks. In the conditions of free flows of information, social networks have become the main sources of knowledge of the situation in the country. This is because the audience needs truthful information, not censorship.
In order to regain the confidence of the audience, the authorities must consider this, and they have no other way. This factor is optimistic for the future of the media. — 0—
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