In the notice, lawyers Matthew Cutajar and Eve Borg Costanzi argue that the Broadcasting Act allows the two politically-owned stations to be biased in presenting facts as long as they balance each other out. This, they say, goes against the constitution, the supreme law of the land, which says broadcast media should be impartial in presenting facts.
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The lawyers said the application to strike out this section of the law, a proviso of Article 13, was the first step in what could be a long legal battle to eventually see party-owned stations shut down for good.