ANTI-PROPAGANDA REDUCES ON TV AIR AND INCREASES IN PRINTED AND ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS, RADIOLUR’S DIRECTOR CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 4, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The coverage of the election campaign
of the 2008 presidential elections, in difference of the election
campaign of 2007, is done more correctly and professionally. Artur
Sahakian, the Director of the Radiolur program of Public Radio Company,
gave assurance at the February 4 discussion. In his words, in that
respect the journalists’ work has improved though "some forces"
and, in particular, RA presidential candidate, first President Levon
Ter-Petrosian try to cast a shadow on it by avoiding interviews. The
impartiality of the election campaign’s coverage, in A. Sahakian’s
words, in noticeable especially on television, while many newspapers
seem to "have given up their professional functions and to have
turned into political subjects." According to his information, the
use of black technologies, anti-propaganda, is gradually reducing on
television and increasing in printed and electronic media.

Vasak Darbinian, the editor of the Hayk periodical and Taregir
electronic periodical, stated that L. Ter-Petrosian refuses to
answer journalists’ questions, as "he has already answered all
questions they are anxious about and there is no issue he has not
touched upon." V. Darbinian said that in the newspapers edited
by him he does not touch upon all candidates equally and covers
Ter-Petrosian’s campaign more, as there is much difference of levels
between L. Ter-Petrosian and the others.