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    ARMENIAN PUBLIC TV CRITICIZED FOR LOW QUALITY AND BIASED PROGRAMMING

    Mediamax
    Nov 10 2008
    Armenia

    Yerevan, 10 November: Discussions of the proposed amendments to the
    Law on Television and Radio continued in the Armenian parliament today.

    Ara Nranyan of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun
    [ARFD] faction in parliament criticized the activity of the Armenian
    Public TV. He said that the Public TV does not correspond to its real
    purpose and is no different than other TV channels. He said that the
    Public TV air time is completely filled with soap operas and programmes
    with "inadequate content and quality". Nranyan criticized the content
    of the Public TV's information programmes as well. He called the
    state budget money given to the Public TV "pointlessly wasted".

    Stepan Safaryan, the secretary of the opposition Heritage party
    faction, in his turn, said that in 2006-07, the Public TV "served the
    interests of one person, former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan
    and did not ensure pluralism of opinions in media".

    He also expressed discontented with the content of the programmes and
    movies broadcasted by the Public TV, saying that there is a necessity
    to hand over the task of monitoring the Public TV to independent
    expert organizations, which will help organize more effectively the
    further activity of the TV channel.

    The chairman of the Public TV board, Aleksan Harutyunyan, who was in
    attendance, did not react to the criticism. The voting on proposed
    amendments to the Law on Television and Radio will be conducted on
    11 November.
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