آقای
اوباما، لطفاً تبعیض سیاسی را در صدای آمریکا متوقف کنید
Mr. Obama, Please Stop Political Discrimination at VOA
پرزیدنت اوباما عزیز،
دو سال پیش قرارداد کاری ام با صدای آمریکا پس از هشت سال کار تمدید نشد و درباره آن به تفصیل نوشتم (1). بعداً صدای آمریکا به کار مردی که عامل آن جریان بود پایان داد؛ اما تبعیض سیاسی علیه ژورنالیستهای مستقل اپوزیسیون نظیر اینجانب در صدای آمریکا ادامه دارد (2). همان زمان نوشتاری را درباره حملات برخی از نئوکانها به ژورنالیستهای مستقل صدای آمریکا در پاسخ به مقاله ای که ضد صدای آمریکا در روزنامه وال استریت ژورنال درج شده بود، منتشر کردم (3). قابل ذکر است که طی دوسال گذشته همان نئوکانها دیگر مقالات انتقادی درباره صدای آمریکا منتشر نمی کنند. بنظر می رسد که آنها از تصمیمات مدیران ارشد صدای آمریکا برای استخدام مدیران جدید در بخش فارسی صدای آمریکا راضی هستند. برخی از این مدیران جدید، پیش از استخدام در صدای آمریکا از گروه های لابی منابع مالی دریافت کرده اند (4). نشریات پیشین آنها نیز دوسالی است که درج مقالات انتقادی را درباره صدای آمریکا، متوقف کرده اند. شخصاً نه از گروه های نئوکان حمایت می کنم و نه از گروه های لابی جمهوری اسلامی، اما مسأله ای هم ندارم که نظرات هردو گروه در مطبوعات منعکس شود. همچنین از روابط صلح آمیز بین ایران و اسراییل حمایت می کنم (5). مشکل یکجانبه گری در مدیریت بخش فارسی صدای آمریکا در حال حاضر است.
تا وقتی که بخش فارسی صدای آمریکا از چارتر صدای آمریکا پیروی می کرد، از مسیر آن مؤسسه خبری که همه گروه ها از جمله نئوکانها را مورد توجه قرار می داد، حمایت می کردم (6). درگذشته نظرات خود را درباره گروه های نئوکان به روشنی توضیح داده ام (7)، و مسأله ای هم ندارم که نئوکانها در مدیریت صدای آمریکا حضور داشته باشند، اما آنها حق ندارند نظرات دیگر را حذف کنند. و نمی شود با اضافه کردن چند روزنامه نگار هوادار اصلاح طلبان جمهوری اسلامی به مجموعه تصور کرد حالا کل طیف سیاسی ایران نمایندگی شده است. آنها هرآنکس را که نظراتشان را به چالش کشد مأمور جمهوری اسلامی خطاب می کنند. از آنها می خواهم شهامت داشته باشند و ادعای خود را درباره آن ژورنالیستهایی که در گذشته مأمور جمهوری اسلامی خوانده اند، ثابت کنند، یا که عذرخواهی کنند. ژورنالیستهای مستقل ایران در محافل سیاسی ایرانی شناخته شده اند و نئوکانها منبع موثق در این عرصه نیستند. هرکسی که از گروه های نئوکان حمایت نکند در نگاه آنها مأمور جمهوری اسلامی است (8). امیدوارم آنها بتوانند مردم را آنگونه که واقعاً هستند، مورد توجه قرار دهند. شخصا به برخوردی منصفانه و متعادل اعتقاد دارم، یعنی همان دیدگاهی که مبنای چارتر صدای آمریکا است. نه تنها از نئوکانها انتقاد می کنم بلکه همچنین با قوت از آنهایی که در اپوزیسیون ایران بطور یکجانبه به اسراییل برخورد می کنند، انتقاد می کنم (9).
به صدای آمریکا رفتم چون می دیدم چارتر آن نظیر رادیوهای بلوک شرق قدیم نیست که می خواستند از ایرانیانی که خواهان انجام کار صادقانه ژورنالیستی بودند، جاسوس بسازند (10). اجازه دهید مثالی از ایران بیاورم که با این شرایط مشابه است. در شش ماه گذشته خانم نسرین ستوده وکیل حقوق بشر در ایران در مقابل کانون وکلا در تهران در اعتراض به لغو پروانه وکالتش که او را از حق کار محروم کرده، در تحصن است (11). آیا کسی که در آمریکا زندگی می کند نباید حقوق مشابهی را انتظار داشته باشد، هنگامیکه متفاوت با مدیریت صدای آمریکا می اندیشد آنهم وقتیکه من هستم که از چارتر صدای آمریکا پیروی می کنم و آنها با تبعیض سیاسی چارتر را نقض کرده اند. و آیا نباید مدیریت صدای آمریکا برای آنچه همه این سالها بر سر من و خانواده ام آورده پاسخگو باشد. گرچه هشت سال بطور تمام وقت آنجا کار کردم آنها مرا قراردادی نگهداشتند و نگذاشتند رسمی شوم که امنیت شغلی داشته باشم، من و خانواده ام همه سالهایی که کار می کردم از بیمه درمانی محروم ماندیم و امروز نیز پس از عدم تمدید قراردادم، از حقوق بیکاری محروم هستم. مدیریت صدای آمریکا زندگی ام را نابود کرد آنهم وقتی در مقایسه با کسانیکه در همه این سالها استخدام رسمی شدند بیشتر واجد شرایط بودم. چه کسی نسبت به این تبعیضات پاسخگو است(12)؟ آیا نباید مدیریت صدای آمریکا برای ضررهایی که با تبعیض سیاسی، به من و خانواده ام در 10 سال گذشته وارد آورده، خسارت دهد؟
آقای پرزیدنت، لطفاً اجازه ندهید برخی افراد، آمریکا را به جایی تبدیل کنند که نیروهای امنیتی در مورد اینکه کسی ژورنالیست باشد یا نه و اینکه برای چه چیزی حق انتشار داشته باشد، تصمیم بگیرند. آیا این موضوع همان چیزی نیست که دموکراسی را از رژیمی توتالیتر جدا می کند. در رژیم های توتالیتر، ژورنالیستها برای خیر و صلاح خویش و به دلیل ترس از پاپوش درست کردن مقامات برای کار، خانواده و شهرتشان، از گفتن حقیقت پرهیز می کنند. ما در کشوری دموکراتیک زندگی می کنیم. بحث درباره تبعیض سیاسی حرف زدن درباره امور شخصی مقامات نیست. تقاضایم فقط این است که صدای آمریکا از چارتر خودش برای استخدام، اخراج و پخش خبر پیروی کند. آیا چنین درخواستی از مدیریت صدای آمریکا برای انصاف و تعادل و متوقف کردن تبعیض سیاسی، زیاده خواهی از آژانس خبری ایالات متحده آمریکا است؟
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جمهوری
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سام قندچی، ناشر و سردبير
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http://www.ghandchi.com
اول اردیبهشت ماه 1394
April 21, 2015
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April 21, 2015
پانویس:
3.
Is VOA pro Islamic Republic
4. شفافیت: خبر ایران و گروه های
لابی در واشنگتن
http://www.ghandchi.com/863-iran-news-lobby-groups.htm
http://www.ghandchi.com/863-iran-news-lobby-groups.htm
5. خطر جنگ جمهوري اسلامي و اسرائيل ..و
اينکه اپوزيسيون چه کار ميتواند بکند
http://www.ghandchi.com/465-IRI-IsraelWar.htm
http://www.ghandchi.com/465-IRI-IsraelWar.htm
Danger of IRI-Israel War and What
Iranian Opposition Needs to Do
8.
Is VOA pro Islamic Republic
10. کار صادقانه ژورنالیستی درباره ایران در
واشنگتن
http://www.ghandchi.com/843-honest-journalism.htm
http://www.ghandchi.com/843-honest-journalism.htm
11. حق کار, حق دگراندیشان
متون برگزیده
Mr.
Obama, Please Stop Political Discrimination at VOA
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/901-obama-voa-english.htm
آقای اوباما، لطفاً تبعیض سیاسی را در صدای آمریکا متوقف کنید
http://www.ghandchi.com/901-obama-voa.htm
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/901-obama-voa-english.htm
آقای اوباما، لطفاً تبعیض سیاسی را در صدای آمریکا متوقف کنید
http://www.ghandchi.com/901-obama-voa.htm
Dear President Obama,
Two years ago my contract with VOA was not renewed after 8 years of working there and I wrote in detail about it (1). Later VOA discontinued services of the man who was the culprit; but political discrimination against independent opposition journalists like myself continues at VOA (2). At the time, I wrote about the attacks of some neocons on independent journalists of VOA Persian, in response to an anti-VOA opinion article of Wall Street Journal (3). It is noteworthy that during the last two years, the same neoconservatives, no longer publish any critical articles about VOA. I gather they are happy with the decisions of VOA executives in hiring new managers at VOA Persian. A few of these new managers had received funds from lobby groups before being hired by VOA (4). Their old Persian publications have also stopped writing critical articles about VOA since two years ago. I do not support neocon groups or pro-Islamic Republic lobby groups, but have no problem with the views of either one to be presented in the press. I also strongly support peaceful relations between Iran and Israel (5). The issue is with one-sidedness in the management of VOA Persian at the present.
As long as VOA Persian was following the VOA Charter, I supported its direction when representing all groups including the neocons (6). My own views about the neoconservative groups are clear (7) and I have no problem with neocons' presence in VOA management, but they have no right to eliminate other views. And one cannot just add a few Islamic reformist journalists to the mix and imagine the the full political spectrum of Iran is represented. They call whoever challenges them as Islamic Republic agent. I dare them to prove such claims about those journalists whom they have called Islamic Republic agents in the past, or apologize. Iran's independent journalists are known in the Iranian political circles and neoconservatives are not the authority on the matter. Anybody who is not a sympathizer of neocon groups is an Islamic Republic agent in their eyes (8). I hope they can see people for what people really are. I am a believer in a fair and balanced approach which is the basis of VOA Charter. Not only I criticize neoconservatives but I also strongly criticize those in Iranian opposition who one-sidedly oppose Israel (9).
I joined VOA because its Charter was not like the radio programs of former Eastern Bloc to make an agent of Soviet Union out of those Iranians who just wanted to do honest work of journalism (10). Let me mention an example from Iran which is similar to my situation. In the last six months, Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been doing a sit-in at the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran protesting a ban curtailing her work because of thinking differently from the authorities who run Iranian Bar Association (11). Shouldn't I living in the U.S. also expect the same rights when thinking differently from VOA management while I followed VOA Charter and they violated it by political discrimination. Shouldn't VOA management answer for what they have done to me and my family all these years. Although I worked more than full time for eight years, they kept me a contractor and did not allow me to have an FTE position to have job protection, my family and I did not have health insurance during all those years of work and I do not have unemployment benefits now that they have stopped renewing my contract. VOA management has ruined my life when I was much more qualified than most people they offered FTE positions all these years. Who will answer to all this discrimination(12)? Shouldn't they compensate me for the damages my family and I have incurred in the last 10 years because of their political discrimination against me?
Mr. President, please do not allow some people to turn United States into a place where security forces decide about who can be a journalist and what the journalists can publish. Isn't this what differentiates a democracy from a totalitarian state. In totalitarian states, journalists are afraid of frame ups when they think about their job, family, reputation and well-being and avoid to speak out the truth. We live in a democracy. Discussing political discrimination is not talking of personal matters of authorities. All I am asking for is to follow VOA Charter in hiring, firing and broadcasting. Is asking VOA management to be fair and balanced and stop political discrimination, too much to ask from the news agency of the United States of America?
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi, Editor/Publisher
IRANSCOPE
http://www.ghandchi.com
http://www.iranscope.com
April 21, 2015
Footnotes:
Two years ago my contract with VOA was not renewed after 8 years of working there and I wrote in detail about it (1). Later VOA discontinued services of the man who was the culprit; but political discrimination against independent opposition journalists like myself continues at VOA (2). At the time, I wrote about the attacks of some neocons on independent journalists of VOA Persian, in response to an anti-VOA opinion article of Wall Street Journal (3). It is noteworthy that during the last two years, the same neoconservatives, no longer publish any critical articles about VOA. I gather they are happy with the decisions of VOA executives in hiring new managers at VOA Persian. A few of these new managers had received funds from lobby groups before being hired by VOA (4). Their old Persian publications have also stopped writing critical articles about VOA since two years ago. I do not support neocon groups or pro-Islamic Republic lobby groups, but have no problem with the views of either one to be presented in the press. I also strongly support peaceful relations between Iran and Israel (5). The issue is with one-sidedness in the management of VOA Persian at the present.
As long as VOA Persian was following the VOA Charter, I supported its direction when representing all groups including the neocons (6). My own views about the neoconservative groups are clear (7) and I have no problem with neocons' presence in VOA management, but they have no right to eliminate other views. And one cannot just add a few Islamic reformist journalists to the mix and imagine the the full political spectrum of Iran is represented. They call whoever challenges them as Islamic Republic agent. I dare them to prove such claims about those journalists whom they have called Islamic Republic agents in the past, or apologize. Iran's independent journalists are known in the Iranian political circles and neoconservatives are not the authority on the matter. Anybody who is not a sympathizer of neocon groups is an Islamic Republic agent in their eyes (8). I hope they can see people for what people really are. I am a believer in a fair and balanced approach which is the basis of VOA Charter. Not only I criticize neoconservatives but I also strongly criticize those in Iranian opposition who one-sidedly oppose Israel (9).
I joined VOA because its Charter was not like the radio programs of former Eastern Bloc to make an agent of Soviet Union out of those Iranians who just wanted to do honest work of journalism (10). Let me mention an example from Iran which is similar to my situation. In the last six months, Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been doing a sit-in at the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran protesting a ban curtailing her work because of thinking differently from the authorities who run Iranian Bar Association (11). Shouldn't I living in the U.S. also expect the same rights when thinking differently from VOA management while I followed VOA Charter and they violated it by political discrimination. Shouldn't VOA management answer for what they have done to me and my family all these years. Although I worked more than full time for eight years, they kept me a contractor and did not allow me to have an FTE position to have job protection, my family and I did not have health insurance during all those years of work and I do not have unemployment benefits now that they have stopped renewing my contract. VOA management has ruined my life when I was much more qualified than most people they offered FTE positions all these years. Who will answer to all this discrimination(12)? Shouldn't they compensate me for the damages my family and I have incurred in the last 10 years because of their political discrimination against me?
Mr. President, please do not allow some people to turn United States into a place where security forces decide about who can be a journalist and what the journalists can publish. Isn't this what differentiates a democracy from a totalitarian state. In totalitarian states, journalists are afraid of frame ups when they think about their job, family, reputation and well-being and avoid to speak out the truth. We live in a democracy. Discussing political discrimination is not talking of personal matters of authorities. All I am asking for is to follow VOA Charter in hiring, firing and broadcasting. Is asking VOA management to be fair and balanced and stop political discrimination, too much to ask from the news agency of the United States of America?
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
Sam Ghandchi, Editor/Publisher
IRANSCOPE
http://www.ghandchi.com
http://www.iranscope.com
April 21, 2015
Footnotes:
3. Is VOA pro Islamic Republic?
4. Transparency: Iran News and Lobby Groups in Washington,
DC
http://www.ghandchi.com/863-iran-news-lobby-groups-english.htm
http://www.ghandchi.com/863-iran-news-lobby-groups-english.htm
5. Danger of IRI-Israel War and What Iranian Opposition
Needs to Do
8. Is VOA pro Islamic Republic?
9. A Critique of Iranian Opposition about War
http://www.ghandchi.com/827-opposition-war-english.htm
http://www.ghandchi.com/827-opposition-war-english.htm
10. Doing Honest Journalism about Iran in Washington
http://www.ghandchi.com/843-honest-journalism-english.htm
http://www.ghandchi.com/843-honest-journalism-english.htm
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