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ABSENCE OF DEBATES IS THE KEY PROBLEM OF COVERAGE OF THE CAMPAIGN BY ARMENIAN MASS MEDIA
ARMINFO
Tuesday, February 19, 14:51
The absence of debates still remains the key problem of coverage of
the campaign by Armenian mass media, the head of the Yerevan Press
Club, Boris Navasardyan, told journalists today when summing up on
the results of the monitoring of the presidential election's coverage
by mass media.
He said that in general the broadcasting mass media did not show
discrimination or an open partial attitude to candidates for president
of Armenia. Equal conditions were provided to all the candidates to
present their programmes. "If during the parliamentary election 2012
the balanced coverage was provided only over the period of official
campaigning, this time the pre-campaign period was also provided with
such coverage", - Navasardyan said.
Incidentally, the leader of the National Self-Determination Union
party, Paruyr Hayrikyan, was covered most of all because of the
assassination attempt on him on 31 January. The leaders by the volume
of the airtime were: Hayrikyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Raffi Hovannisian
and Hrant Bagratyan.
The coverage of activity of the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan
before the campaign was rather intensive, as he was covered not like a
candidate for president, but like an official. However, the situation
radically changed when the campaign started: from 21 January to 16
February Sargsyan like a candidate for president was shown by TV 8,7%,
whereas this indicator was 65,6% from 14 to 20 January. Navasardyan
said that this is evidence of the fact that there is a common law,
according to which an official should cut his public appearance,
if it is not connected with the campaign.
Navasardyan pointed at absence of debates like a negative factor of
coverage of the campaign.
The monitoring of the coverage by the broadcasting mass media was
held by the Yerevan Press Club with assistance of the OSCE Yerevan
office within the frames of the project financed by European Union.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMINFO
Tuesday, February 19, 14:51
The absence of debates still remains the key problem of coverage of
the campaign by Armenian mass media, the head of the Yerevan Press
Club, Boris Navasardyan, told journalists today when summing up on
the results of the monitoring of the presidential election's coverage
by mass media.
He said that in general the broadcasting mass media did not show
discrimination or an open partial attitude to candidates for president
of Armenia. Equal conditions were provided to all the candidates to
present their programmes. "If during the parliamentary election 2012
the balanced coverage was provided only over the period of official
campaigning, this time the pre-campaign period was also provided with
such coverage", - Navasardyan said.
Incidentally, the leader of the National Self-Determination Union
party, Paruyr Hayrikyan, was covered most of all because of the
assassination attempt on him on 31 January. The leaders by the volume
of the airtime were: Hayrikyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Raffi Hovannisian
and Hrant Bagratyan.
The coverage of activity of the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan
before the campaign was rather intensive, as he was covered not like a
candidate for president, but like an official. However, the situation
radically changed when the campaign started: from 21 January to 16
February Sargsyan like a candidate for president was shown by TV 8,7%,
whereas this indicator was 65,6% from 14 to 20 January. Navasardyan
said that this is evidence of the fact that there is a common law,
according to which an official should cut his public appearance,
if it is not connected with the campaign.
Navasardyan pointed at absence of debates like a negative factor of
coverage of the campaign.
The monitoring of the coverage by the broadcasting mass media was
held by the Yerevan Press Club with assistance of the OSCE Yerevan
office within the frames of the project financed by European Union.
From: Baghdasarian