YPC PRESIDENT BELIEVES THAT THE SPECIALISTS OF ECHO RESEARCH "MIXED THE ORANGES WITH PEARS"

Mediamax
February 14, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. President of the Yerevan Press Club (YPC)
Boris Navasardian cast today 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 pre-election campaign.

Mediamax reports that, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan today,
Boris Navasardian 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 Navasardian 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 authority
pressures, than the electronic media, and one cannot compare these
two completely different types of press. This is the same thing as
to mix oranges with pears", YPC President stated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress