Verelq: Do not speculate. PARA TV responded to Torosyan’s and Hayrapetyan’s criticisms

RA Minister of Diaspora Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, and a little later also RA Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan, yesterday, November 22, spread a message on their Facebook pages that the programs with their participation on PARA TV were censored due to political reasons, and therefore were not broadcast.

PARA TV responded with a message, which specifically states: “We inform you that these statements are based solely on the imagination of honorable ministers and have nothing to do with reality. The fact is that the original program “Hard Talk” with Arsen Torosyan was received outside the format, that is, it did not meet the expectations of our viewers, which were formed in the context of previous editions. At PARA TV, this type of decision is made exclusively by the producer, whose main responsibility is to ensure quality broadcasting, which gives the right not to broadcast the program that does not meet certain standards.

As for the episodes of the same program with the participation of Mkhitar Hayrapetyan and political analyst Menua Harutyunyan, which were filmed during the following two days, we should note that they have not been edited yet, and no one has watched them yet, therefore, the most absurd are the assumptions that some people did not like it and banned it from airing.

Dear Ministers, we urge you not to collect political dividends by unjustifiably manipulating names and linking them to our TV channel. We also urge you to stop putting pressure on the mass media and not to speak to us in the language of threats, which is certainly not in the interests of you and your political team.”