It has been a tradition since ancient times that the best of each department in the cities, when they showed a high level of performance, were promoted and transferred to the capital and enjoyed better job benefits. It means a reward for effort and becoming the best. Now, although the standard of being the best has changed, this routine is still followed, and according to the standard that reporters with TV experience – from Javad Khabani in football to Hadi Amal in wrestling – have left behind during these three decades, every day we witness the emergence of a new talent in a corner of this crowded border, the latest of which was discovered today in Ahvaz!
You can’t criticize the reporters of the city why so many of them get on the nerves of the viewers. These servants of God are not to blame, when the only food on the table is bread and cheese, no one can talk about shishlik! When the role models and standards are assumed to be the elders present in this field, the criterion of progress will be modeling the existing routine that we are witnessing.
After the strange words of a young man who went viral on the internet and now became a prolific reporter of Channel 3, today the reporter of Esteghlal Khuzestan and Esteghlal in Ahvaz showed his potential to be invited to Tehran and replace the elders. They invent the style of not knowing and not seeing in reporting and thanking everything and everyone to somehow crush the viewer’s nerves!
It has long been known in world and Iranian football that after a penalty is announced for a team, the captain of that team takes the ball and hands it to the player who has already been assigned to kick – or the coach has decided at that moment. By doing this, many incidents are prevented, such as two players arguing over a penalty, or many rumors and hadiths being created as to why so-and-so didn’t give so-and-so and so-and-so.
The same thing happened in this match, and Mohammad Ahl-e-Fuhi – as the captain and coach’s representative on the field – picked up the ball to give Arif Rostami a penalty as the first woman of Khuzestan Blues. Anyone who has seen two matches of Esteghlal Khuzestan knows that Rostami is their penalty taker, but the reporter who is from that city and should know the details of his city’s team, not only did not know that Arif Rostami is the team’s penalty taker, but also did not know about this method – which was seen many times in the World Cup and our own league!
Not knowing the basic principles of reporting with the style of a leader! At first, the professor talked about the penalty kicking by the branch for nearly a minute, and because he didn’t see that number 44 gave the ball to number 7 (!) when Rostami took the shot, he was surprised and started asking why the woman’s penalty was changed?! And inside his mind, a lot of conspiracy illusions formed!
This style – which has nothing to do with the events in the picture and only say the words we have prepared in advance – was used by Hadi and this reporter followed exactly! Its peak was in the scene of Yasir Asi’s dismissal, two minutes before the red card, the whole stadium and TV viewers could see that the star of Esteghlal was arguing with the referee and was constantly arguing with him! The game fell asleep for one turn, then it started, Yasir Asani went to the line, argued with the help of the referee, the referee went to the stage, again and again and again until the number 7 of the Blues was sent off, and during all these minutes the respected reporter was thanking the city authorities that with their efforts, people have been able to watch football!
That people get paid for their jobs and do their duty, on the one hand, why we should witness and hear thanks to the authorities of a city on live air – in football broadcast – on the other hand, we never understood why! But the golden goal of the story was when in those moments when the atmosphere of the stadium was inflamed, the fans were angry and crowded on the side of the field, the reporter noticed the dismissal on the air and said: Let’s see who the referee dismissed!
And while the camera was on Yasir Asani and he was leaving the field with that look and with this brilliant performance in this one year – which even his 6-7-year-old football friends can recognize! Fortunately, without the help of Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, the journalist of Esteghlal Star finally made it and let us know the name of the expelled player!
With this amount of potential of “not seeing and not knowing” which has become the measure and criterion of reporting on TV, the place of Ahvaz reporter in the capital is honestly empty! It’s a pity that he stays in Ahvaz and we only get to enjoy his art 4 times a year in two matches between Esteghlal and Steel against Blue and Red of the capital!
In this connection: Conductor agentthe last survivor of the generation of losers who make excuses; I wish the television had a Mohammad Bana!
