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Gary Grif­fith, leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), has called on the me­dia to stop pre­sent­ing po­lit­i­cal­ly aligned in­di­vid­u­als as im­par­tial ex­perts. In a me­dia re­lease, Grif­fith crit­i­cised the fre­quent por­tray­al of cer­tain com­men­ta­tors as ob­jec­tive an­a­lysts de­spite their po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tions.

“It is time for the na­tion­al me­dia to wake up and stop mis­lead­ing the pub­lic by care­less­ly la­belling in­di­vid­u­als as ‘po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts’ or ‘se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts’ when, in re­al­i­ty, their track records and pub­lic com­men­tary ex­pose clear po­lit­i­cal bias and ques­tion­able cre­den­tials,” Grif­fith said.

He cit­ed po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst In­di­ra Ram­per­sad, chal­leng­ing ob­servers to iden­ti­fy any in­stance where she has crit­i­cised the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) or praised the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM). He al­so ref­er­enced her de­scrip­tion of an elec­toral con­test be­tween Stu­art Young and Phillip Alexan­der as a “clash of gi­ants.”