The Nationalist Party shall be seeking a remedy from the Broadcasting Authority for PBS’s failure to report the Finance Minister’s statements on citizenship in the European Parliament last week.

Last Friday, the PN filed a complaint with PBS about the matter and in a reply today the station denied it had not reported Prof. Scicluna’s address because of what he said.

PBS said it was not its policy to be selective in what it reported and would have been guilty of imbalance only if it took what Prof Scicluna said out of contest through selectiveness and interpretation.

It said it consistently followed its editorial line that the national station reported the political message only when it had news value.

In a reaction, the Nationalist Party said that while all the independent media saw news value in what Prof. Scicluna said, PBS did not.

It also did not see any news value in the PN’s statement about the minister’s extraordinary u-turn.

Through his behavior, PBS head of news Reno Bugeja was being very selective in his choice of what should be reported. Instead of broadcasting news with an editorial consistency in the public’s interest, PBS was only interested in covering up for the government.

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