Following an extensive media monitoring project focused on the coverage of the Azerbaijani downing of a Nagorno-Karabakh helicopter, RSC Analyst Mikayel Zolyan publicly presented his findings in a series of interviews with the “Media.am” electronic news agency.
.Zolyan argued that “the media must work in such a way so that coverage doesn't complicate the situation further” and noted that “I’'s one thing if a person expresses his personal opinion on social media, which also can be quite aggressive and very negative toward the other party to the conflict; it's another thing when the media use the same language.”
He then concluded by saying “on the one hand, there is a propaganda war; naturally, we have to deal with this too, and the corresponding specialists have to deal with this. On the other hand, there is also the issue that our society has to have an idea of what happened. And we have to be able to strike a balance between the two.”
English: http://media.am/en/Mikael-Zolian-on-Armenian-military-helicopter-shooting-down-coverage
Armenian: http://media.am/Mikael-Zolian-on-Armenian-military-helicopter-shooting-down-coverage