Media chief critical of UK firm’s survey ahead of presidential polls

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

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS