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ONLY 6% CALL ARMENIAN MEDIA FREE - POLL
Interfax
Dec 13 2010
Russia
The Armenian mass media are somewhere between partially free and
constrained, Chairman of the Armenian Committee for Protection of
the Freedom of Speech Ashot Melikian said at a press conference.
"Media freedom in Armenia scores 58.64 points, which means that
the media are somewhere between partially free and unfree," he said
in comment on a latest poll of the heads of 450 printed editions,
television and radio channels.
"Only 6% of the respondents said that the Armenian media are totally
free; while 46% said the media were partially free and 48% called it
unfree," he said.
Pressure on the Armenian media will mount in the next two or three
years because of the parliamentary and presidential elections in
2012-2013, he said.
From: A. Papazian
Interfax
Dec 13 2010
Russia
The Armenian mass media are somewhere between partially free and
constrained, Chairman of the Armenian Committee for Protection of
the Freedom of Speech Ashot Melikian said at a press conference.
"Media freedom in Armenia scores 58.64 points, which means that
the media are somewhere between partially free and unfree," he said
in comment on a latest poll of the heads of 450 printed editions,
television and radio channels.
"Only 6% of the respondents said that the Armenian media are totally
free; while 46% said the media were partially free and 48% called it
unfree," he said.
Pressure on the Armenian media will mount in the next two or three
years because of the parliamentary and presidential elections in
2012-2013, he said.
From: A. Papazian