Updated: PL protests over PBS news coverage

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The Labour Party is protesting about the coverage given in the news bulletin of the Public Broadcasting Services of its news conference about the BWSC, the company which has been given the contract for the new power station in Delimara.

It has asked the station to remedy the situation.

The party yesterday presented the auditor general with the results of investigations carried out by a Danish newspaper, which concluded that the company had used bribery to win contracts in several countries abroad.

The PL said that through its actions, TVM and Radio Malta were trying to mitigate the importance of the party’s conference, which was of national importance.

Contacted for his reaction, PBS editor Natalino Fenech said this was an obvious effort to try and discredit PBS, as surveys were showing that the audiences for its news bullettins were continuously increasing.

Dr Fenech said that PBS covered both what the Leader of the Opposition and the Minister had to say about the power station tender issue.

But it refused to be drawn into any case to further anyone´s arguments.

"It is not clear where, in the opposition's eyes, TVM went wrong.

"From someone who teaches journalism at university, I expect a higher level of professionalism and ethics, at least where media is concerned," Dr Fenech said.