یه گزارش فرانسوی از کافه

قبل از عید فرها پولادی خبرنگار خبرگزاری فرانسه اومد کافه تا یه گزارش هم اون برای بقیه روزنامه نگارای جهان از کافه تهیه کنه. کمی حرف زدیم نوشیدیم و بعد رفت. چند روز بعدش عطا طاهر کناره اومد عکس گرفت کمی حرف زد و رفت بعد از چند روز دیگه اونا رو تو سایت خبرگزاری فرانسه اینطوری دیدیم

From scoops to scones
Beeta Salehi Bakhtiairi at "Titre" © AFP Atta Kenare
Two Iranian journalists run coffee bar in Tehran after deciding they have had enough of work in not so professional atmosphere of Iran's media.
By Farhad Pouladi - TEHRAN
In a small cafe in Tehran's smog congested downtown, two disenchanted Iranian journalists have taken a break from their media jobs to serve up strong coffee and milkshakes to former colleagues.
After deciding they had had enough of work in the "not so professional" atmosphere of Iran's media, the married couple earlier this month opened their coffee shop in an alley behind the main book market near Tehran University.
"We both worked as journalists on local newspapers, news websites and news agencies for the past nine years," says Beeta Salehi Bakhtiari, 31, who is a year older than her husband Behnam Qolipur.
"And after all these years we came to the conclusion that journalism is an insecure job here," she explains, while tending to the costumers and tidying up her small place called Titre (headline) with its Spartan decor.
"Me and my husband turned into coffee shop owners aiming to attract as many journalists from different social and political schools of thought as possible," she says.
The only picture on the wall is a black and white portrait of Dr Kazam Motamednejad, a journalism professor at Tehran's University and the man she regards as the father of Iranian journalism.

Beeta Salehi Bakhtiairi at her coffee shop © AFP Atta Kenare
"Here the newspapers are run by people who do not know the ABC of journalism. They got the paper's license only to build the connections needed to get to higher places," she says.
"They treat journalists without any respect. Basically, a journalist can easily lose his job without an explanation," Bakhtiari adds with a sigh while slicing a piece of cheesecake.
"So we started this job as a rendezvous place for the press people so we wouldn't be cut off from the job we crave," she says, dressed in the Islamic republic's obligatory women's attire of coat and scarf.
She plays down suggestions that their decision was influenced by a hardline government being at the helm since August.
Even during the term of Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, hundreds of print media outlets were shut and scores of journalists imprisoned by Iran's hardline judiciary as part of a crackdown.
Since January, Iran's culture and Islamic guidance ministry (Ershad) has taken up the supervisory role.
The economic newspaper Asia and a weekly newspaper published in Iran's ethnic Azeri provinces called Navid Azerbaijan have since been shut down by Ershad's press watchdog.
As she answers questions she places a menu in front of a female journalist who has just entered, while the customer browses through the array of newspapers on display ranging from the hardline to reformist.
Newspapers and magazines are placed just as on a news stand so that customers can browse while sipping the coffee and puffing their cigarettes.
"The only problem with the place is that it is too small, I wish it could flourish and they could expand the place," said Ali Haqiqat, a blogger who frequents the Titre three times a week.

Beeta Salehi Bakhtiairi © AFP Atta Kenare
"The place has potential, but it certainly needs improvements. Like a computer for Internet connection," the optimistic journalist added.
Bakhtiari explains that some items on the menu like "Journal Coffee", "Journal Juice" and "Titre Milkshake" are her own creations.
"I divided the menu into different services just like the news media, cold drinks service, milkshake service, cocktail service, so as not to forget what I was and that I still do not want to let go."
Asked whether she was worried that her place may be closed down or run out of business by nearby rivals, she says: "No, I am not worried. Political discussion is forbidden here.
"By the way we are offering a 15 percent discount for jour

nalists. And just like there are different readers for different newspapers, so it is in this business. We prefer to be unique," she jokingly adds.

لینکهای مرتبط با این گزارش در خبرگزاریها و مطبوعات جهان
میدل است انلاین
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/9606.aspx
کویت تایمز
ایران منیف