Quality Journalism

Carmona Rodrigues presented his election manifesto for (re-)election as mayor of Lisbon yesterday.

According to RTPN, he declared himself against the new Lisbon airport. They then showed a clip of his news conference to support that assertion, where he actually said that he was against the closure of the current Lisbon airport at Portela.

The construction of alternative airport facilities does not necessarily imply closure of Portela, as I noted in Ota Airport. Why should the RTP journalist choose to mis-quote Carmona Rodrigues? It's probably just the journalistic habit of creating sensation out of nothing, opposing a PSD candidate to the PS government's recent statements. That's a habit we can do without.

SIC Notícias quoted him correctly this morning - congratulations are in order.