The PPP yesterday said that it has made a “massive sweep” of the just-concluded local government elections, having won 48 out of the 71 local authority areas it contested.
At a press conference held at Freedom House, Stabroek News was also singled out by the party and accused of being “bias, flawed, discriminatory and racist” in its reportage of the results. The party said that the newspaper’s “screaming headlines” and analysis focused on government’s wins in heavily populated areas and not on the amount of seats that were won by contestants. It said that had it been analysed from that angle, it would clearly be seen that the PPP/C was the most successful.
It was while reading a prepared statement that PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee criticised this newspaper’s coverage, arguing that the bias was evident in the headlines of the Sunday and Monday (yesterday) editions.
In responding to the PPP’s claims, Stabroek News Editor-in-Chief Anand Persaud defended the newspaper’s coverage
