Cases of discrediting European values can be mostly found in the print media.<\/p>\n
This is the conclusion of the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (CPFE.) From September 1 to December 31, 2019, the Committee conducted a monitoring to single out the publications discrediting the European values through various methods of propaganda.<\/p>\n
Thirteen media have been monitored \u2013 5 TV companies (including Russian RTR-Planet that covers all the territory of Armenia,) 3 national newspapers and 5 online media.<\/p>\n
The committee chose to monitor the media associated with various political stakeholders. The following TV companies were selected \u2013 Public Television Company of Armenia, Russian RTR-Planet, 5th<\/sup> Channel, Yerkir Media and Kentron.<\/p>\n The selected print media were Haykakan Zhamanak, Iravunk<\/em> and Hraparak<\/em>. The online media included Tert.am, 1in.am, 24news.am, News.am and Sputnik Armenia.<\/p>\n The monitoring experts singled out the cases of manipulation (distortion and misrepresentation of facts, biased comments, references to non-existent sources, etc.), using hate speech and negative clich\u00e9s in relation to national, political, social, religious, racial and other groups.<\/p>\n Thirty thousand 110 out of the monitored 103 thousand 725 materials were Europe-related. Only 213 of them contained elements of propaganda and tricks aiming at discrediting European values.<\/p>\n Opportunities for manipulation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the monitoring results, the main opportunity for manipulation and negative clich\u00e9s was the issue of the National Assembly ratification of Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. Armenia signed this document, better known as the Istanbul Convention, on January 18, 2018.<\/p>\n According to CPFE, the allegations published in the media were sometimes absurd.<\/p>\n Hayk Ayvazyan, the head of Luys<\/em> informational and analytical center, claims that the convention \u201chas been introducing the criminal system of alienating children from families\u201d (Iravunk, <\/em>October 13, 2019.) Edward Poreyan, an athlete, comes to a far-reaching conclusion, \u201cby playing \u201cthe game of Europe\u201d, we are losing our Armenian qualities, we are losing our children and their future\u201d (Iravunk, <\/em>November 15, 2019.) Hraparak <\/em>newspaper has used a more impressive phrasing, \u201cwhy do we import the \u0415uropean wastewater into our country\u201d (Hraparak, <\/em>November 12, 2019.)<\/p>\n Other manipulation topics include: production of the film on Meline (Mel) Daluzyan, a weightlifter that decided to change sex; Armenia\u2019s participation in Eurovision song contest; the Huzanq u Zang<\/em> performance near one of the subway stations. The media have presented the above phenomena as \u201cthe corrupting influence of the West,\u201d claiming that the new government is the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the West, doing everything as they say.<\/p>\n Who has used tricks to discredit European values?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the monitoring results, 116 out of 213 stories have been published in the print media. Correspondingly, there are 65 and 32 similar materials broadcast by TV companies and posted by the online media.<\/p>\n It turns out that reporters are the main \u201cauthors\u201d of negative clich\u00e9s, \u201chate speech\u201d and manipulative techniques (in 113 cases.) In 75 cases, experts and public figures are the authors; politicians \u2013 in 33 cases; officials \u2013 in 14 cases; scientists and artists \u2013 in 5 cases, etc.<\/p>\n The most popular propaganda trick is the biased and manipulative comment on events and phenomena. Reporters have used that trick in 104 cases.<\/p>\n According to monitoring experts, journalists have been disseminating more negative clich\u00e9s about Europe and European values than all the others, taken together.<\/p>\n Reporters have also made references to anonymous (allegedly \u2013 non-existent) sources and used hate speech. Actually, most of the hate speech was related to the sexual\/gender topic.<\/p>\n Who are the \u201cleaders?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Cases of discrediting European values can be mostly found in the print media. They have more discrediting stories than TV companies and online media, collectively.<\/p>\n Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em> has published the fewest materials containing anti-European comments (only 5 of them.)<\/p>\n Iravunk<\/em> is the \u201cleader\u201d, considering the quantity of such materials. More than 76 percent (89 out of 116) of such stories have been published in that newspaper.<\/p>\n In 61 cases out of 89, journalists working for that newspaper have expressed hate speech and spread biased comments, distorted facts and negative clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n Hraparak<\/em> newspaper has published 22 such materials, mainly authored by journalists.<\/p>\n As for TV companies, Russian RTR-Planet has broadcast the biggest number of materials discrediting European values \u2013 39 in total. This exceeds the figure of 4 Armenian channels, taken together (26 in total.)<\/p>\n Unlike newspapers, in this case the experts and public figures have been the main \u201cauthors\u201d (31 in total,) followed by journalists (21 in total.)<\/p>\n The \u201cleading\u201d Armenian TV company is the 5th<\/sup> Channel (18 materials in total.) In this case, journalists have never used any expressions discrediting European values \u2013 instead, guest experts and politicians have done it.<\/p>\n There were 4 materials with anti-European content at Yerkir Media TV company. As for the Public TV, there was only one case when an expert\/public figure used a negative clich\u00e9 to express his disagreement.<\/p>\n Unlike others, the online media have disseminated fewer stories discrediting European values.<\/p>\n Among 8 thousand 503 Europe-related stories in News.am, only 11 contained tricks discrediting European values. There were 9 such stories out of 4 thousand 619 in Tert.am; and 9 such stories out of 4 thousand 459 in 24news.am.<\/p>\n There was 1 story with elements of anti-European propaganda in 1in.am, and 2 such stories \u2013 in Sputnik Armenia.<\/p>\n As for the online media, experts and politicians were the main \u201cauthors\u201d of manipulation and anti-European propaganda.<\/p>\n This was the first phase of the research; the second phase will contain the period from January 1 to April 30, 2020. After that, a comparative analysis of the collected data will be conducted.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Anahit Danielyan<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cases of discrediting European values can be mostly found in the print media. This is the conclusion of the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (CPFE.) 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