“Money talks, and right now it's talking shit,” wrote a well-known socialite and actress Kim Kardashian on her personal webpage.
“My family and I are no strangers to BS in the press. Lies make good headlines, good headlines make great covers, great covers sell magazines. We've learned to brush it off. But when I heard about this full-page ad that ran in the Wall Street Journal denying the Armenian genocide, I couldn't just brush it off.”
According to Kardashian it was the Turkish Platform that paid for the ad. The platform involves a network of ads stating that the historians exaggerate the number of the Armenian victims and blaming Armenians for that.
“For the Wall Street Journal to publish something like this is reckless, upsetting and dangerous. It's one thing when a shitty tabloid profits from a made-up scandal, but for a trusted publication like WSJ to profit from genocide—it's shameful and unacceptable,” she continued.
Reminding the reply of WSJ to Gawker’s inquiry she stated that “advocating the denial of a genocide by the country responsible for it—that's not publishing a ‘provocative viewpoint,’ that's spreading lies. It's totally morally irresponsible and, most of all, it's dangerous. If this had been an ad denying the Holocaust, or pushing some 9/11 conspiracy theory, would it have made it to print?”
“Many historians believe that if Turkey had been held responsible for the Armenian genocide, and reprimanded for what they did, the Holocaust may not have happened. In 1939, a week before the Nazi invasion of Poland, Hitler said, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" We do. We must. When we allow ourselves to be silenced by money, by fear and by power, we teach our children that truth is irrelevant. We have to be responsible for the message we pass on to our children. We have to honor the TRUTH in our history so that we protect their future, she concludes.
The Wall Street Journal placed an ad of Fact Check Armenia – an anti-Armenian group. The group rejects the mass massacres of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the WWI. The ad hints that allegedly Armenians have a share of responsibility in what had happened.
