The media in October 2014 insufficiently or in just 11% of the published information referring to the Assembly reported about parliamentary debates and the arguments brought by MPs on parliamentary sessions.
The Assembly was most frequently mentioned against the background of the wider political situation in the country, relations between the largest political parties, the opposition boycott, and the termination of the boycott by the MPs of DPA.
MPs are sources of information for most of published materials concerning the Assembly. However, they are most often from only one political option. In fewer cases sources from both the majority and the opposition appeared in the published articles.
In the published content that had sources from only one political party, more often the sources were elected or active MPs from political parties which are part of the opposition.
These are parts of the findings of the Second Report on how the media report the work of the Parliament in the period between 1 and 31 of October 2014.
Subject of the analysis was published information in which the Assembly, MPs, the legislation or the legislative procedure were mentioned. The monitoring of the media includes monitoring of published information that concern the work of the Assembly and its MPs in 10 media outlets with national coverage or distribution. Six of them are daily newspapers, of which four are published in Macedonian and two are published in Albanian language. The remaining four media are televisions from which two broadcast in Macedonian language and two in Albanian language.
The monitoring of the media is part of the project “Parliament Watch! Strengthening the political debate and deliberative discourse” funded by the European Union, and cofounded by the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” – Skopje (IDSCS) and the Institute for Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans (IECOB).
