“The mass media show far less interest in the current election campaign, for President and Vice President, than in the campaign for the June 2001 parliamentary elections,” Orlin Djelepov of the monitoring team of the National Council for Radio and Television (NCRT), told journalists. Djelepov quoted preliminary results from a survey on the broadcasts of 14 television channels and five radio stations, conducted between October 12 and 25 to prove the Council`s observation. "As a whole, a fair tone is maintained in newscasts. We have not detected bias with respect to any of the candidates," Djelepov said. "The media show much more tolerance than in the previous election campaign," he added. According to Svetlana Bozhilova from NCRT, National Television and National Radio have been placed in a humiliating position due to the lack of rules for campaign debates. Commercial media show less enthusiasm about the campaign than in the run-up to the parliamentary elections, the survey shows. “The results indicate that the practice of monitoring helps to raise the standard of mass communication,” Georgi Lozanov, NCRT Chairman, said. “The presidential elections seem not to be dominant on the public agenda,” he commented.

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