Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Feb 14 2008

Armenian media chief critical of UK firm’s survey ahead of
presidential polls

Yerevan, 14 February: President of the Yerevan Press Club (YPC) Boris
Navasardyan today cast doubt on the report of the British ECHO
Research Company, prepared following the results of a media
monitoring in Armenia during the first week of the election campaign.

Speaking at a news conference in Yerevan today, Boris Navasardyan
noted that "seven days is a quite short period for determining the
degree of objectiveness and independence of the Armenian media".
Besides, he noted, the used indicators of the research do not give
basis to argue that the given data are unambiguous.

Boris Navasardyan stated that the ECHO Research held a mixed analysis
of the broadcast and print media of Armenia, "which radically differ
as to the degree of independence and freedom".

"We repeatedly noted that the newspapers are freer from the
authorities’ pressures than the electronic media, and one cannot
compare these two completely different types of media. This is the
same thing as mixing oranges with pears," the YPC president stated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress