MIC fights back
Seeks free air time on Super 1
The Malta-EU Information Centre yesterday called on the Broadcasting Authority to take the necessary steps to ensure the public would not continue being misled by the Labour Party EU spots being aired on TVM.
In the light of a court ruling last Thursday in which PBS was ordered to carry the MLP's spots on the EU free of charge, MIC chairman Simon Busuttil yesterday sent two separate letters to the BA chairman.
In the first Dr Busuttil insisted that the MLP's spots were "factually incorrect and went against the BA's ruling taken in June".
Dr Busuttil said that in June the BA had made it clear that the time allocated to the MLP would "have to be used only for the production and broadcasting of factual and relevant information spots on the alternative of EU membership, without inserting any opinions".
"I would like to point out to the authority that the first information spots of the MLP on TVM have presented incorrect information," Dr Busuttil pointed out.
In the second letter, Dr Busuttil also called on the BA to allocate MIC space to air its own informative spots on EU membership on Super One TV.
Dr Busuttil pointed out that since May last year, MIC had been denied the space to broadcast its own information spots on Super One TV.
"This is leading to a situation where the station's audiences are being denied the chance of following factual information issued by MIC on the EU and on the process that our country is presently going through," he said.
"Therefore, in the light of the decision taken by the court last week, MIC is asking the authority to grant it space on Super One TV and that this air time be provided to MIC free of charge," Dr Busuttil concluded.