As you can see from Matt’s post below, there have been no blogs for a long while. I am unable to explain the absence of the other bloggers, but my role of showbusiness blogging turned into a more general one. I can explain my absence - I’ve been in Armenia ,for a long while …and I will try to briefly sum up what I got from my 2 month trip this time around.

I was working this year, at a very big Armenian TV station - I won’t name it, - the people I worked with were great, the experience was great - but all in all I was left with a true taste of exactly how difficult living in Armenia is, and how completely inverted the mass media is in Armenia.

I am worried to explain what exactly I learned about this tv company, mainly because I know there are very powerful people who would not be happy to read it - but all I can say is the well wishing and generosity of some people can be grossly taken advantage of, and used to produce what we would call “Commercial” programming. This channel - which claims to take the interests of the diaspora to heart. - is merely putting on a facade, they charge for the subscription, thats if you can find anyone to offer you one.. the canteen closes at 2pm because the boss doenst want anyone eating after that - but the ladies will let you in through the back door if you knock - and the receptionist spends more time talking to her boyfriend than actually answering anyones questions…oh, and if you want a glass of water, you can go drink from the hose pipe out back, then return to your desk full of $25,000 worth of editing equipment - all of these seem pretty trivial, but when you are in a huge media complex, it becomes baffling!

You might try to contact someone to discuss the matter - but the fact is, no one cares.

I hope I have summed up why recently, Armenia has left nothing but a bitter taste in my mouth.

I hope to be more positive in the near future