Between freedom and taboo: media coverage of the Karabakh conflict
Mark Grigoryan and Shahin Rzayev (2005)
Grigoryan and Rzayev chart the development of the Azerbaijani and Armenian media in relation to the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. The Soviet era media tried to conceal the developing conflict, but after independence more professional outlets projected nationalist visions of events in Karabakh and the onset of full-scale war gave journalists newfound power. After the 1994 ceasefire media positions have become linked to homogenized political views dictated by positions of victory and defeat, spurring a decline in interest in the Karabakh problem in Armenia and heightened nationalist rhetoric in Azerbaijan. Dominated by political interests and still primarily concerned with their own survival, the media in either country has yet to secure the autonomy necessary to engage their societies in critical and constructive debate on the Karabakh peace process.
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