13. 03. 2014

DAILY “DANAS“ REMAINS THE MOST OBJECTIVE

The Centre for Monitoring of the House of Human Rights and Democracy has analysed writing of dailies on political parties in the election campaign for three consecutive weeks.

It analysed eight dailies (Danas, Politika, Blic, Alo, Kurir, Informer, Večernje novosti and Naše novine) as in the previous week.

The main trend of the campaign - huge support of the media to the ruling SNS - continues. This party was favored by five out of eight analysed newspapers (Novosti, Alo, Politika, Kurir and Informer - percentage of representation from 31% to 65%).

Dailies Blic and Naše novine did not favor any of the parties this week, while daily Danas still holds the first place by far in the fair treatment and diversity of topics it covers, but also because it is the only daily that writes critically about SNS.

Another conclusion is that the prominently negative campaign led against the largest opposition party in dailies Kurir and Informer has been confirmed for the third consecutive week. Additionally, daily Informer is increasingly focused on the negative campaign against the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - out of nine articles this week about this party, seven were negative.

Kurir had 14 articles about the Democratic Party (DS), all the 14 extremely negative (while the daily published 30 articles about SNS, all positive), according to the analysis by the House of Human Rights and Democracy comprised of Civic Initiatives, Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and the Policy Center.