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MEDIA MONITORING OF ELECTION COVERAGE SHOWS NEGATIVE MENTIONS PREVAILED IN PRINT MEDIA
Panorama.am
10/05/2012
The monitoring of Armenian print media coverage of parliamentary
elections indicated that Armenian print media showed much interest in
the electoral process. In some cases, there was unbalanced, subjective
and selective media coverage of events, Executive Director of Armenian
Public Relations Association (APRA) Tatevik Pirumyan told a news
conference in Yerevan.
APRA conducted monitoring of Armenian print media coverage of
parliamentary elections within the framework of an EU-funded project on
supporting democratic elections in Armenia implemented by OSCE Office
in Yerevan. The monitoring kicked off on March 12. 16 local newspapers
with a circulation of 3000 and above were monitored for 2.5 months
(Irates de Facto, Azg, Iravunk, Hayots Ashkhar, Haykakan Zhamanak,
Yerkir, Zhamanak, Zhoghovurd, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun, Hraparak,
168 Zham, Aravot, Hayatsk, Orakarg, Golos Armeniii, Novoye Vremya).
According to APRA expert Armen Minasyan, the share of media coverage of
the electoral process was 38.3 percent. At the same time, the expert
noted that media had campaigning rather than informative function in
elections campaign period.
The monitoring revealed that negative titles prevailed in the
monitored print media, with too many comments by authors, according
to Minasyan. Besides, there were too many negative mentions:
pro-government papers negatively referred to opposition parties and
vice versa. As for Heritage, both pro-government and pro-opposition
papers had mostly negative mentions of the party, the expert said.
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Panorama.am
10/05/2012
The monitoring of Armenian print media coverage of parliamentary
elections indicated that Armenian print media showed much interest in
the electoral process. In some cases, there was unbalanced, subjective
and selective media coverage of events, Executive Director of Armenian
Public Relations Association (APRA) Tatevik Pirumyan told a news
conference in Yerevan.
APRA conducted monitoring of Armenian print media coverage of
parliamentary elections within the framework of an EU-funded project on
supporting democratic elections in Armenia implemented by OSCE Office
in Yerevan. The monitoring kicked off on March 12. 16 local newspapers
with a circulation of 3000 and above were monitored for 2.5 months
(Irates de Facto, Azg, Iravunk, Hayots Ashkhar, Haykakan Zhamanak,
Yerkir, Zhamanak, Zhoghovurd, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun, Hraparak,
168 Zham, Aravot, Hayatsk, Orakarg, Golos Armeniii, Novoye Vremya).
According to APRA expert Armen Minasyan, the share of media coverage of
the electoral process was 38.3 percent. At the same time, the expert
noted that media had campaigning rather than informative function in
elections campaign period.
The monitoring revealed that negative titles prevailed in the
monitored print media, with too many comments by authors, according
to Minasyan. Besides, there were too many negative mentions:
pro-government papers negatively referred to opposition parties and
vice versa. As for Heritage, both pro-government and pro-opposition
papers had mostly negative mentions of the party, the expert said.
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