The Labour Party yesterday presented a memorandum to the Broadcasting Authority board saying the authority should shoulder responsibility for the "imbalance" in state broadcasting.

The memorandum included a number of points the MLP said should be safeguarded by the BA to ensure that state broadcasting complied with the Constitution. Among other things, Labour is arguing that current affairs programmes should be produced by the Public Broadcasting Services' newsroom.

It accused the PBS of increasing its anti-Labour "dosage" as a result of the programmes produced by the "anonymous partnership" Where's Everybody? The memorandum describes the commercial organisation's officials as being as being known activists of the Nationalist Party and thus having an interest in promoting the PN's political message.

Reacting to Labour's memorandum, Where's Everybody? said neither of its two programmes Bondì+ or Xarabank had every been found guilty by the Broadcasting Authority of imbalance against the MLP. Labour had imposed a boycott on both programmes and yet, Where's Everybody? continued, Labour leaders and spokesmen continued to be invited to both programmes even if they always refused. Alfred Sant had been invited over 25 times to sit on the panel but refused.

"Thus, it is absurd that Alfred Sant first refuses to participate in the programmes and then allege imbalance against him," Where's Everybody? said.

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