THE FIRST CHANNEL ALSO WANTS TO REPRODUCE
KarabakhOpen
12-02-2008 11:30:08
The first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan lodged a
complaint with the Constitutional Court that the coverage of
the election campaign on the Public Television of Armenia lacks
objectivity and pressures on public opinion, and is aimed against
Levon Ter-Petrosyan. If the court passed a ruling in favor of Levon
Ter-Petrosyan, the voting would be postponed for two weeks.
The news program of the Armenian Public Television Haylur would not
get off the pages of reports of international and local observers
who monitor the objectivity of the election campaign. Meanwhile, this
program is the target of dissatisfaction, and after the election it
will be mentioned as the biggest shortcoming of the election campaign.
The national channel which is watched in all parts of the country and
is broadcast through the satellite has assumed an inadequate stance
in the election campaign. The propaganda of the acting prime minister
and the campaign against the first president is done in so crudely
that one starts doubting the "real" intentions of the journalists. The
impression is that everything is stitched together with white thread,
as if the journalists want to say "if we really wished, we would have
done it better".
Nevertheless, the Public Television has already influenced the
minds of voters. And if some people started to believe that the
election is a mere reelection, and nothing can be done about it,
others concluded from the behavior of the Public Television that the
government is in panic since they have already launched the "heavy
artillery". Especially that the government cannot prevent voters from
meeting with other candidates.
Independent from the outcome of the voting, the Public Television
will change after February 19. If the government is reproduced,
confidence in the First Channel will be lost, and it will finally
become marginal. If the opposition wins, the policy of the First
Channel will be completely changed.
It is a pity that the Public Television which had been set up to
protect the society from pressure from "overhead" has become part of
what is "overhead". And as part of the ruling elite it is trying hard
to be reproduced.