In 2009 the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, along with the
local media monitoring, also carried out an expert survey among represen-
tatives of media, public and political organizations from all the marzes of the
country and the city of Yerevan, to identify the following factors:
- the degree of the media access to data;
- the cases of deterring the media activities, and the role of various public, political and state institutions in protecting the rights of media;
- the degree of the journalistic solidarity and the ways of its enhancement;
- perception of transparency of the media financial activity and of the ownership and activity monopolization;
- relationships between media on the one hand and public and political organizations on the other; in case of the latter – the opportunities of expressing their views and opinions through the media, and their rating of the pluralism level ensured by the media.
