Racism needs no protection from the state
The IĠM would like to express its solidarity with Andrew Azzopardi and RTK103 after being served another fine by the Broadcasting Authority for refusing to invite far-right politicians from Imperium Europa onto its radio station. Moreover, the IĠM cannot agree with the BA’s nonsensical decision on the matter. Media houses […]
Journalists’ questions regarding COVID19 measures censored on TVM…again
Yet again, the directive of the Malta Broadcasting Authority has been used to censor the information given to the public. For the second time, following a directive issued by the Malta Broadcasting Authority, the questions asked by the press were censored from broadcast on what has now become a State […]
BA PERSISTS ON BLAMING JOURNALISTS INSTEAD OF RECTIFYING THE ERROR OF JUDGEMENT MADE
The IĠM notes that the Broadcasting Authority, instead of acknowledging and rectifying the error of judgement it made in forcing the PBS to into the position of a state broadcaster, effectively providing censored material to its audience, it persists on blaming journalists for their questions. “…the Authority considered that, while […]
BA FORCES PBS TO CENSOR PRESS CONFERENCES
Today, those who viewed the press conference given by the Deputy PM Chris Fearne and the Superintendent of Public Health Prof Charmaine Gauci on the public service broadcaster were subjected to state sponsored censorship courtesy of the Broadcasting Authority. This came about following a decision handed down by the Broadcasting […]