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 news readers spend more time playing around in corridors and putting lipstick on than they do taking their role seriously. 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 .

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