Azerbaijan: First four days of monitoring shows government hogging election campaign coverage

Reporters sans frontières - Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan29 September 2008

First four days of monitoring shows government hogging election campaign coverage

The government is over-represented in the Azerbaijani media’s coverage of the campaign for the 15 October presidential elections, Reporters Without Borders found in its first four days of monitoring the campaign coverage, the results of which it released today. The monitoring is part of a comprehensive “Media pluralism in the electoral period” project that is co-financed by the European Commission.