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کوروش صحتی: ناگفته هایی در مورد چگونگی جدایی ام از صدای آمریکا

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کوروش صحتی

واشنگتن دی سی – آبان ۱٣۹۰

Proud of Rudi! Iranians' Asset in the Media

Everybody who has met Rudi Bakhtiar even once knows that she is one of the most caring persons you can ever meet. She is one of the few Iranians who has appeared on major channels like CNN for years. If there is a good cause to promote, then you could find Rudi's willingness to support it. She has contributed to the Iranian community to the best of her ability. She loves Iran and Iranians and has used all she could in her capacity to be the voice of the unheard. Over the past two years, she used her influence to bring the voices of the voiceless to the forefront. It's very unfortunate to see untrue and gossip type comments here on Iranian.com and on this post, made by anonymous people who don't have the courage to leave comments using their real names. It's become a dirty habit of some people to come online and trash people. It's a shame and shows how some Iranians have lost their dignity and have no shame writing untrue things about other people.

Rudi's departure is VOA's loss. She stood by her high standards and principles and that caused her departure. VOA has been in crisis for a long time and it does not have the requisite environment to welcome people like her. 

Rudi Bakhtiar

I have had the utmost pleasure of working with Rudi Bakhtiar. Rudi is one of the most competent professionals I have ever met. Her high standards of professional conduct and her sincerity in her work are simply exemplary.

There may be a thousand reasons why a professional relationship may end. Only those who are privy to complete, detailed information know why a working relationship ends. For my part, when I learned that Rudi went to VOA's Persian Service, there was a glimmer of hope in my heart for the troubled enterprise, and with this news that hope no longer exists.

For the thousandth time, I would like to express that it is utterly disgraceful for anonymous users on this site to speak about decent individuals who operate under their real names with such venom and hate with total impunity. I am disgusted that such cheap and unfair shots are allowed to take place against people here just because they are public figures.

Shame on us for rushing to attack people's name and character in the protected darkness of anonymity, just because we are allowed to do it. This is not freedom of expression. This is no different than throwing acid on someone's face, and it is simply appalling.

I wish Rudi Bakhtiar a bright future and an easy transition into her next professional position in an environment where she would shine and sparkle and prosper as only Rudi can.

thanks HFB for added info about

rudi having to take care of her father. at various workplaces in us, i have met and worked with people who broke their marriages only to marry someone they met at work. this is not unusual when people spend so much time at work and for many other reasons. so it seemed weird that why rudi should get fired for something that so many others do.  

CNN departure

Ms. Bakhtiar left CNN, as in her own words, she needed to take an extended "leave" to be with her dying father, and CNN would not renew her contract on those terms. (that's the gyst of what I remember from a speech of Rudi's in 2008.)

rationaliranian: Surely, it's mean to say Rudi Bakhtiar simply left CNN because of an "affair" - without mentioning the sadness of the above. 

بودجه صدای آمریکا ته کشیده

حالا کم کم نفرات رو کم می کنن و میرسه به روزی دو ساعت برنامه اخبار.  پیغام من به همشون اینه که دنبال یه بیزنس دیگه باشن مخصوصاً جمشید چالنگی جون با اون فیس و افاده فکر نکنم جای دیگه ای بتونه کار پیدا کنه. هنوز واشنگتن دی.سی. به چلوکبابی های بیشتر احتیاج داره.

Sad News

It is true that VOA is sinking. I didn't know she worked there. I liked the reports by Batebi and Sehati and thought they did very good jobs. I think Chalangi has been re-instated but not sure.

Perhaps they want to replace them with some pro-war personalities.

May be Eric Cantor messed that up too!

    Rudi is fruity! She should work for VOI (voice of Iranians) not VOA!

Voice Of America?

A while ago I mentioned something about certain guests with pro-regime agenda who have turned the medium into Voice Of IR! Not in those exact words, though. One of our friends on this site thought I was being too harsh on VOA. There's nothing harsh about criticizing programs which look more like propaganda produced by IR apologists and agents!

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they are talented people, especially Rudi B. She will do just fine with or without VOA.

How very sad...

This is sad but not unexpected news. Unfortunately, Voice of America's Persian Service has long passed its heyday and its days of glory. Fraught with endless gossip and bad blood and incompetent managers, anchors, and analysts, the network remains a sad joke when it comes to its coverage of the political scene in Iran.

It is unwise of Rudi Bakhtiar or any other media professional worth their salt to accept to work for the sinking ship of a network.

Who could forget this disastrous interview with Mohsen Kadivar? A bigger disaster than the interviewee was the interviewer, Setareh Derakhshesh, who knew jack about what Mohsen Kadivar was fabricating, and provided a classical example of journalistic ignorance and ineptitude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1_4vZcSclk

VOA's loss

As a journalist and observer of Bakhtiar's career, I have great admiration for her. Without knowing anything about why VOA let her go, my view is that it does more harm to the organization where personal and political considerations take precedence more than any other major media outlets I know of, private or government, under current and past managements. This latest incident will make the staff more demoralized, unsettled and fearful of their job at a time when VOA should represent the best of American journalism in the region's media wars, in front of an Iranian audience who expect the highest standards.

'Rationality:' A Rarity on IC!

'Really?' Yes. As the 'All About the Real Rudy' remarks by 'Rationaliranian' tells it all about such rarity!

The truth 'really' hurts! 

It will be an interesting Parazit, if not an awkward one

will have to see.

Never understood why Rudi, left CNN for Fox.  But actually I was not even aware she was in VOA :)

Can we wait 4 FACTS before commenting

Till we do not have Miss Bakhtiar's side of the story, we better STOP making "?!!!!?" comments.

Amir Normandi

360 degree, is not Math but Geometry...

LOL. Roozbeh, man chera emrooz az dande chap boland shodam o hey shoma ro chase mikonam?

LOLO, vali be del nagir.

Always friend :)

Iranians cannot work together as a team

Because Iranians are unable to work together as a team. Each man or woman for him or herself.  We have not learned the art of cooperation, comradeship, respect for one another.  I had heard that inside VOA Persian there is a lot of backstabbing, and it is a mad world.  I asked a friend who works at VOA Afghanistan and he told me he only hears negative things.

Imagine, we boast and boast about our great culture but cannot see another person succeed. It is very sad but until we learn to work together as a team, things will remain the same whether the Islamic regime is in power or not.

Difference is Rudi Bakhtiar "Exists" ... VOA "Exits" ;0)

Gooreh Pedareh VOA ! 

Chins Up Rudi Jaan ! 

I'm sure you will be a better asset to the new media outlets in Europe like this one Manoto1 TV which recognizes real talents:

37 DAYS:Documentary on Shapour Bakhtiar's Premiership (MANOTO TV)

Best,

DK 

THE COURT JESTER AND I: With Mansour Bahrami on the Set of Manoto's "Welcome to My Life"

WAR IN ART: With Ghass Roozkhosh on Manoto TV's "Welcome To My Life"

MAZEH PARIS:With Ali Tavassoli on Manoto TV's "Welcome To My Life"

MANOTO LONDON:Lyricist, TV Host Raha Etemadi and Shahbanou Farah

MANOTO LONDON:Scream For Me Tehran - Bringing Rock & Metal to Iranian Fans

MANOTO LONDON:Googoosh Music Academy Takes Off on Manoto One

No, I meant 360 degrees!

You passed today's math test dear  suri, congradulations!

 As I was traying to explain to you in a different blog, a puppet only repeats what the puppet master says, albeit in a different tone. A puppet's fate is entirely in it's master's hands....

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

Not a good sign.

Surprising too.

Rudi Kojai Dokhtar, Chi shod?

Who will VOA hire in replacement ? her uncle's Assassin ? ...

Shapour Bakhtiar's killer return as a hero and new job to Tehran - Iran 18 may 2010

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LOL , Roozbeh jon

360 degrees of phase shift, is not a good statement.

360 degrees, is the same as 0 degree, so it means they stayed on their own position after having got a round!

You must say : 180 degree, if you meant they went to the opposit side.

(Or I may have been wrong and didn't get your point thorough, so I apologize)

Women and men, in the office, working late,...., possibly

attracted to one another, and next thing you know, kissing,..., and people gossiping, and resignation, moving on to... and you know the rest!

Just an speculation!

Here lies the problem:

When our sources of information  is limited at one end of this circular spectrum of media outlets to Press TV, and at the other end, VOA, after 360 degrees of phase shift! Of course with youtube right in the middle! 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

Lack of enough fund maybe? :)

The VOA just can't pay all those excessive salaries....especially that they didn't reach to their essential aims, so far.

Just a guess :)

Of VOA

I wish someone could've said more in order to educate a non-viewer like me. VOA didn't hire her for her legs, I know; was she fired for her "brain" then? Does anyone see a pattern which could reveal even a tiny portion of the US policy here?

what is the story behind all these firings?

i read something about batebi's but why "chalangi" was fired? and now rudi bakhtiar. she indeed has both beauty and brain and experience too.

She was cute as well. Brains

She was cute as well. Brains and looks. good combination. 

Sad news

It's not clear why Bakhtiar's stay at the VOA ended so soon. She had brought a high degree of professionalism to the organization. She will be missed -- and hard to replace -- where seasoned journalists have found it difficult to function in its politically super-charged environment.