JFF: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RECEIVED MOST COVERAGE IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Lilit Muradyan
"Radiolur"
03.05.2012 16:45
The "Journalists for the Future" NGO presented an interim report
on the Monitoring of Coverage of the 2012 Parliamentary Election
Campaign by Armenian Electronic Media. The monitoring was conducted
between April 6 and 18.
Before the start of the election campaign and during the first 10
days the 10 electronic media monitored published 10,564 articles on
election-related topics, which is a huge number, according to Suren
Deheryan, Presidnet of the NGO. The websites under monitoring included:
1. 1in.am 2. 7or.am 3. a1plus.am 4. azatutyun.am 5. civilnet.am
6. lragir.am 7. news.am 8. tert,am 9. panarmenian.net 10. panorama.am
According to the results of the monitoring, the Republican Party of
Armenia received most coverage in electronic media (31.1%) followed by
the Armenian National Congress (17.2%), the Prosperous Armenia Party
(12.7%), the Heritage Party (9%), the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(4.9%) and Orinats Yerkir Party (4.8%). The Communist Party and the
United Armenians received the least coverage.
The attitude of the electronic media towards different parties is
mostly neutral. The number of positive articles is more than that of
negative ones. Most articles with the author mentioned are neutral
(98%); they are rarely negative and almost never positive.
The NGO will present its next report within ten days following the
elections.
Lilit Muradyan
"Radiolur"
03.05.2012 16:45
The "Journalists for the Future" NGO presented an interim report
on the Monitoring of Coverage of the 2012 Parliamentary Election
Campaign by Armenian Electronic Media. The monitoring was conducted
between April 6 and 18.
Before the start of the election campaign and during the first 10
days the 10 electronic media monitored published 10,564 articles on
election-related topics, which is a huge number, according to Suren
Deheryan, Presidnet of the NGO. The websites under monitoring included:
1. 1in.am 2. 7or.am 3. a1plus.am 4. azatutyun.am 5. civilnet.am
6. lragir.am 7. news.am 8. tert,am 9. panarmenian.net 10. panorama.am
According to the results of the monitoring, the Republican Party of
Armenia received most coverage in electronic media (31.1%) followed by
the Armenian National Congress (17.2%), the Prosperous Armenia Party
(12.7%), the Heritage Party (9%), the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(4.9%) and Orinats Yerkir Party (4.8%). The Communist Party and the
United Armenians received the least coverage.
The attitude of the electronic media towards different parties is
mostly neutral. The number of positive articles is more than that of
negative ones. Most articles with the author mentioned are neutral
(98%); they are rarely negative and almost never positive.
The NGO will present its next report within ten days following the
elections.