Saviour Balzan, as Managing Editor and director of MaltaToday, has asked MediaToday lawyers to hold the directors of PBS, the chairman, the editorial board, the chief executive, head of news and presenter Lou Bondì responsible for any commercial damages to MediaToday.
In a statement issued by Mr Balzan, it said that the lawyers have also been instructed to proceed immediately with civil and criminal libel against Mr Lou Bondì.
In Thursday’s programme of Bondiplus on TVM2, repeated on Friday on TVM, Mr Balzan said that “Mr Bondì made references to MaltaToday” as “Malta Labour Party Today” and also “accused its journalists of pretending to be independent.”
“The use of public broadcasting by Mr Lou Bondì to lash out at individuals or entities who do not agree with his partisan programme is despicable.
“This is not the first time that Mr Bondì has attacked MaltaToday and it is clear that the board of directors and editorial board have no interest in controlling Bondì’s excesses,” Mr Balzan said.
MaltaToday is, and will remain, an independent newspaper that is loyal to its readers for its printed and online editions, the statement concluded.