On the Scene: Edik Baghdasaryan: media.am (video)
In the Media.am series "On the Scene" we normally encounter journalists, photojournalists, and camera operators who often appear at the scene of political and civic demonstrations, marches, and protest rallies. They describe their principles and approaches in covering these events. Edik describes how during the initial days there were few journalists, and the fewer they were, the easier it was to work. "Then they came, began to interfere with one another, and then interfere with the soldiers; as they say, '[they] got underfoot'; they [the soldiers] couldn't do their work," he says, laughing. He considers it normal that during a war situation there might be areas closed off to journalists and he places himself in the soldiers' position. "Well it's a war, you have to take that into account. The soldiers were getting very frustrated when there was an order from above that some [journalistic] group is coming because you have to engage with that group and they don't have time for that. When there might be an attack at any moment, they have to leave their problems and deal with journalists. It's not that easy. And you shouldn't take it badly when they don't accept journalists at this moment very well." More here
