A woman who works for One News is convinced she’s a journalist.
31-year-old Valerie Falzon has been been working for the Labour Party’s media company for the past five years.
“I put a lot of effort into making sure my reporting is as impartial as possible. I do this by gathering information from multiple sources, fact-checking that information and analysing the story from all possible angles,” said Falzon.
“It just so happens that what I end up writing always toes the party line, paints the government in a positive light and implies that anyone critical of the Muscat administration is a traitor, a Nationalist or both. I can’t help it if that’s the objective truth,” she insisted.
Giving an example of her journalistic credentials, Falzon cited an article she wrote for One News’ website yesterday, in which she reported that the people taking part in next Sunday’s protest against the Central Link Project wanted to raise car licence fees and limit car use.
“It’s not like I could ask all the 6,000 sad and negative people who liked the page for their opinion. So I took a comment from one random person who isn’t in charge of the group. What’s wrong with that?”
Falzon added that any similarities between her work and the kind of thing you see on North Korean state TV were purely coincidental.
“Yes, I may have received my training from the Kim Il Sung School of Journalism in Pyongyang, and I’m currently dating a minister, but what does that have to do with anything?” she asked.
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