October Media Monitoring Study Media Monitoring Study of Ministry of Internal of Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Affairs, Ministry of State Security, Public State Security, Public Prosecutor’s and Court Prosecutor’s and Court For “Alpe” Foundation October October , 2005 , 2005 Executive Organization: BCG research Financed by EU
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October
Media Monitoring Study of Media Monitoring Study of Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of State Security, Ministry of State Security,
Public Prosecutor’s and CourtPublic Prosecutor’s and Court
For “Alpe” Foundation
OctoberOctober, 2005, 2005
Executive Organization: BCG research
Financed by EU
October
Methodology
BCG research conducted monitoring study for five Georgian newspapers: “Alia”, “Akhali Taoba”,
“Akhali Taoba Kviridan Kviramde”, “Kviris Palitra” and “24 Hours ”.
Totally 446 articles were analyzed and processed.
Monitoring Study classified articles according to the following indicators:
•Number of articles
•Topic of articles
•Tone of articles
•Reasons for a certain tone
•Journalists
October
Evaluation of the tone was defined according to five variations:
• Very positive
• Positive
• Neutral
• Negative
• Very negative
Evaluation of the tone was defined according to the following criterion:
police, Public Prosecutor’s, Ministry of State Security, Court and etc.)
• Articles refer to reforms in the above-mentioned structures
• The opinion of the respondent is not followed by an author’s comments or a
resume.
• Advertisements and press announcements.
October
Positive Tone:
Positive tone evaluation is based on the following criterion:
(Regardless of positive and negative content of an article)
1. When an author presents positive personal opinion on a subject matter.
2. When positive tone is expressed in a concealing form though it can be perceived beyond an
article.
3. When the facts are backed up by positive comments.
4. When positive tone is signified in journalist’s questions during an interview.
October
Negative Tone:
Negative tone evaluation is based on the following criterion:
(Regardless of positive and negative content of an article):
• When an author presents negative personal opinion on a subject matter.
• When negative tone is expressed in a concealing form though it can be perceived
beyond an article.
• When the facts are backed up by negative comments.
• When negative tone is signified in journalist’s questions during an interview.
October
After having defined the tone of an article, the reasons for an
author’s tone are identified. Corruption, human rights
violation, abuse of power and others are supposed to be causes
for negative tone. On the other hand, honestly executed job,
professionalism, uncompromising and others can be the
reasons for positive tones.
October
Main tendencies of the Month
• Totally 446 articles were published concerning the survey issues in “Alia”, “Akhali Taoba”, “Akhali Taoba Kviridan Kviramde”, “Kviris Palitra”, “24 Hours” in October;
• The majority of articles (99%) are of neutral tone. 1% of the articles are of negative tone. The highest number of the articles of negative tone was published in “Alia”(4) and ’24 hours” (1);
• Totally 5 articles of negative tones were published; No article of positive tone was released in September;
• Majority of the articles referred to Court of Law (45), Ministry of Internal Affairs (41), Ministry of Justice (27);
• Number of articles of negative tone referred to Court of Law (6), Penitentiary (2), Ministry of Internal Affairs (2), Advocate (2);
• In October, the number of articles referring to Court of Law increased, that is caused by judiciary reforms undergoing and the court related problems. The negative tone of the articles referring to the Court of Law could be caused by the above-mentioned reason.
• In October, the articles of negative tone referring to the Ministry of Justice was not very notable that could be explained by informative and not critical articles released on the monitoring in the penitentiary conducted by NGOs.
Minister of Internal AffairsMinistry of State Security
Official of Public Prosecutor
Official\Employee of Police
Judge
Ministry of JusticeFBI
Ombudsmen
Public Defender's office
Armed forces
NGO
Advocate
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
Sept. 05
Oct. 05
October
Number of articles of neutral toneconcerning to structures
24 10 41 43 14 34 5 38 716
21 21 31 41 8 25 61 23 23 119
27 14 5946 8 97 19 20 5
31 13 28 24 10 6 4 6 24 23 22
13 16 12 13 41213 16 22
13 12 8 19 9 312 8 27 2
15 2 13 3 10 2 21 12
13 4 23 1512 16 11
15 6 15 1 14 1
0 50 100 150 200
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
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PoliceOffice of Public ProsecutorMinistry of Internal AffairsCourt of LawMinistry of State SecurityPatrol PolicePenal InstitutionsLaw Enforcement StructuresMinister of Internal AffairsMinistry of State SecurityOfficial of Public ProsecutorOfficial\Employee of PoliceJudgeMinistry of JusticeFBIOmbudsmenPublic Defender's officeArmed forcesAdvocate