ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST: ARMENIAN TELEVISION IS CONTROLLED BY ONE CENTRE – PRESIDENT’S RESIDENCE, SO THERE IS NO WORD ABOUT ITS INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY

ArmInfo
2008-09-19 17:13:00

ArmInfo. ‘Armenian television is controlled by one centre –
president’s residence, so there is no word about its independence
and impartiality’, – member of political council of the opposition
Republic party Suren Surenyants said at today’s press-conference.

He also added the television shows only those parts which please the
authorities and exclude all the rest ones.

Touching on financing of newspapers from the state budget, he said
only the newspapers which propagate agressive policy of the authorities
are financed.

‘Not the state problems but the problem of preserving their clan
political propaganda the authorities are trying to resolve with a
help of such newspapers’, – Surenyants said.

He also added newspapers are more or less free, and naturally their
potential is limited if compared with that of the television.

‘Newspapers in Armenia are more oppositional than free as because of
keeping television under the total control, newspapers start showing
‘instinct of self-preservation", – Surenyants said.