Media Monitoring: Analysis of the Quality of Reporting on NATO Summit Held in Lisbon

on Jan 27, 11 • by NVO Infocentar •

The general conclusion of this monitoring is that the citizens were provided with sufficient information on the outcome of the Lisbon NATO Summit. At the same time, there was far less analysis what the new reforms in NATO would mean for Macedonia and its ambitions to join the Alliance...

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This report covers the period November 1-30, 2010, and offers analysis of the quality of reporting on NATO Summit held in Lisbon, Portugal.

The analyses includes the coverage in eight daily newspapers (“Utrinski vesnik”; “Dnevnik”; “Vest”; “Večer”; “Vreme”; “Nova Makedonija”, “Špic” and “Koha”) and the central news programmes aired on seven TV stations that broadcast nationally and over the satellite (A1 TV; Kanal 5 TV; Sitel TV; Telma TV; MTV 1; Alfa TV; and Alsat TV). It should be noted that, due to technical reasons, the monitoring of “Koha” daily’s reporting and coverage was done three times per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday editions).

The monitoring focused on the following genres: news, statements, reports, commentary/reports, commentaries, analyses, interviews, photo-news, columns and op-ed.

During the period covered by this monitoring, the media carried the views and positions of Macedonian political figures. They carried the statements and opinions of both the government and the opposition, including the positions of the parties in the Albanian political bloc. The media also carried the views and positions of foreign diplomatic representatives stationed in Macedonia and of the international community, related to Macedonian membership into NATO. The media also presented the views of the members of the expert community.

It should be noted that the dispute over the name with Greece deserved almost nomention. Knowing that during the period before and immediately after the publication of the European Commission’s Progress Report 2010 the media, without exception, treated the name-dispute as one of the key issues related to European integrations of the country, we could conclude that the dispute is primarily perceived from the viewpoint of European integrations, and not the integration of Macedonia into NATO.

Analysis of the Quality of Reporting on NATO Summit Held in Lisbon