Now Labour files protest against PBS over TVAM invitees

The Labour Party has filed a protest against PBS for this morning’s edition of the daily breakfast TVAM show, for what it claims as a failure to present a PL viewpoint.

The protest come a day after Nationalist MP Clyde Puli claimed that the same show had committed an act of broadcasting imbalance on Monday morning’s edition, by not ‘balancing’ out a Labour journalist with a Nationalist journalist invited for a 2015 review programme.

Presenter Norma Saliba hosted a Labour journalist and an RTK journalist for her programme’s review of the year in news, in what turns out to be a two-part edition that continued this morning, with PN following the case with an official complaint to the Broadcasting Authority.  
In its statement the PL said that today’s programme was clearly a reaction to this protest which resulted in an “unreasonable imbalance.” The party also added that during yesterday’s edition of the programme, a former PN official and a ONE journalist had been present.

“Today’s edition lacked anyone with the PL’s view point so the party felt a protest is necessary,” the statement reads, demanding remedial action.

The statement adds that PBS has become more influential and independent than before and that the PN was trying to put pressure on its newsroom, “which is run by a respected individual and which also employs former PN journalists among others.”