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Parliament Watch: Seventh Report on Media Reporting

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After the sharp decline in February, the media has increased its reporting on the happenings in the Assembly. They more often informed about the parliamentary discussions on the plenary sessions, especially those concerning the amendments of the laws on identity card and residence. 
 
In March, there is an increased tendency of a simple transferring of information, merely reporting on the happenings in and about the Assembly and a decline in the percent of information, analyzing the content of events. The media mostly informed on the plenary sessions and considerably less on the discussions within the parliamentary commissions. In March, the media also paid more attention to information on new laws entering into force or to law amendments and their content, whereby totally disregarding the parliamentary discussion for those laws. 
 
In March, the main source of media information connected to the Assembly are the MPs. Second source of information are the members of the Government, while the third source are the foreign representatives. 
 
The media yet again published more information from sources quoted by one political option, mostly MPs of the ruling parties, rather than information which equally represents sources from the Government and the Opposition.
 
The public generally remains insufficiently informed about the happenings in the Assembly, the laws being discussed and the arguments presented by the MPs on the sessions. 
 
The Assembly in March 2015 is yet again mostly mentioned in context of the wider political situation and the relations between the parties.  
 
These are part of the findings within the Seventh report from the monitoring of media reporting on the work of the Assembly, conducted in the period from 1 to 31 March 2015  
 
The research comprises published articles and TV articles from the following media: Dnevnik, Utrinski vesnik, Vecher, Sloboden pechat, Koha, Lajm, Sitel, Telma, Alsat-M and MRT2 programme in Albanian language. The monitoring is part of the project “Parliament Watch, Strengthening the Political Debate and the Deliberative Discourse” financially supported by the European Union. 
 
The word cloud of the most used words in the titles of the articles and in the announcements of the TV articles referring to the work of the Assembly in March, is further attached. 
 
The reports from the monitoring of media and the Assembly from the previous months are available on the following link https://idscs.org.mk/mk/tekovni-proekti/sobranieto-pod-lupa

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