ALMOST ALL BROADCAST MEDIA PRESENT SERZH SARGSYAN IN MORE FAVOURABLE TERMS THAN OTHER CANDIDATES
arminfo
2008-02-14 14:41:00
ArmInfo. Almost all broadcast media presented Serzh Sargsyan in more
favourable terms than the other candidates, Interim Report 2 (27
January – 9 February 2008) of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation
Mission deployed to monitor the Feb 19 presidential election in
Armenia says.
The report says that private and public media generally covered
Serzh Sargsyan in his capacity as a presidential candidate. The
news programmes of almost all broadcast media, except Radio
Liberty, have almost entirely omitted to air Levon Ter-Petrossian’s
critical remarks regarding Serzh Sargsyan, the candidate from the
Republican Party of Armenia, and Robert Kocharyan, the incumbent
president. "Mr. Ter-Petrossian has however on occasions criticised
the incumbent president and Serzh Sargsyan during the free airtime",
the document says.