NUMBER OF ELECTRON AND PRINTED ARMENIAN MASS MEDIA EXCEED MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE LEVEL OF SUBJECTIVITY: REPRESENTATIVE OF RULING PARTY

arminfo
2007-10-25 14:12:00

ArmInfo. ‘A number of electron and printed Mass Media in their
information policy exceed the maximum permissible level of
subjectivity, member of Board of the ruling Republican party of
Armenia Artak Zakaryan said today at the seminar "Role of Mass Media
in Armenia’s Internal Political Life", organized by the Armenian
Center of National and International Studies.

He also said that the problems in the Mass Media’s activity always
existed.

"Unfortunately, the information in Mass Media not always reflects the
real picture of events, the assessments in many cases are extremely
subjective.

Though progress is apparent in the Mass Media’s activity, the situation
in general cannot be called satisfactory", A. Zakaryan said.

At the same time, he said, extra emphasis on specific problems is
observed in the work of the Mass Media, that causes a definite
disbalance in their information policy. A. Zakaryan, urging not
call the specific Mass Media, paid attention to the atmosphere of
permissiveness that "prevails in newspapers’ activity". However,
this statement aroused a negative reaction of the rest of experts and
representatives of human rights organizations present at the seminar.