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    A1plus

    | 15:17:14 | 08-06-2005 | Social |

    HOW CAN DEPENDENT PRESS BE RESPONSIBLE?

    `The press is not free enough', this was the answer of 500 representatives
    of the Yerevan State University - lawyers, sociologists, economists,
    historians, and journalists, to the question of the `National Center for '
    about the reasons of the non-effective highlighting of corruption by Mass
    Media.

    The surveys found out that when it comes to corruption, the Mass Media pay
    more attention to education and health fields. During today's seminar of the
    Monitoring center Education deputy Minister Artak Sahradyan said that he is
    seriously concerned by the problems in the educational field. At the same
    time he thinks the journalists must be responsible for their materials while
    highlighting the problems present in the above mentioned field, `WE have
    always had two sacred things - the church and the school, and we must be
    able to preserve the most important of them - the schools', he announced.

    As for the Mass Media, RA Social Security Minister Aghvan Vardanyan was not
    sure whether the journalists are always objective and responsible for their
    materials, especially when there is nothing to hide from them. `But this
    presupposes two-party cooperation', said Mr. Vardanyan.

    By the way, Vladimir Pryakhin, head of the OSCE Yerevan office who was
    present at the seminar made an interesting note. He said that the OSCE does
    not consider the Mass Media as a means of propaganda, but the projects
    realize by OSCE `according to the Soviet logics have elements of
    propaganda'.
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