Comments on: The very person journalists should have interviewed, but failed to do so https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:50:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22150 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:50:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22150 Well, at least Alex Torpiano knows what he is talking about, is able to construct a coherent argument, present it articulately and use evidence to back it up. That’s not a claim many in this debate – here and elsewhere – are able to make.

“The people have spoken” is not enough reason to bypass planning procedures. What if “the people” were to decide that a project should go ahead, despite unanimous expert opinion that it should not?

]]> By: Tony Pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22149 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:36:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22149 Speaking of which, Moggy, Time magazine’s quote of the day was:

“I believe strongly that his spirit was never released.”

HARLYN GERONIMO, great-grandson of Apache warrior Geronimo, who is suing Yale University’s secret society, Skull and Bones, alleging that its members stole Geronimo’s skull from his grave in 1918.
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Il-lostrina, maybe they buried it under St.John’s.

]]> By: P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22148 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:49:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22148 I can assure you there are many other experts who have given their expert opinion on the planned museum extension project based on their expertise and experience, but who would not voice their opinion in public in case some FAA wise-guy might hold them out as neither Maltese nor Roman Catholic. Now that we have FAA under the expert direction of Ms Astrid Vella, who needs MEPA?

]]> By: NGT https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22147 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:51:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22147 Obviously journalists would give this a miss – nothing sensational to report and no fodder for the myriad ‘GonziPN’ critics the online Times seems to attract. No wonder the archbishop thought the issue was divisive.

]]> By: Moggy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22146 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:37:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22146 [Alex Torpiano – If, on the other hand, the former were the case, as, knowing the people concerned I think it was, was it not, in fact, their job to express their opinion – but not to offer a final decision on the proposal, since this role is reserved, according to our laws, to others?]

I was particularly impressed by this sentence. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many commas in a single sentence.

]]> By: Tony Pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22145 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:36:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22145 Why oh why has Mr Torpiano decided to speak his mind only now? Thanks to the informed debate you have instigated D, many of the FAA supporters are now feeling they have been hoodwinked all along, and unfortunately gave their support to the wrong side. I forgot who analysed the figures some time ago, but it turned out to be much less than the 1500 names they keep throwing at us. I heard through the grapevine that Astrid’s so-called experts are regretting the day she involved them in the whole issue.

]]> By: Andrew Borg-Cardona https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-very-person-journalists-should-have-interviewed-but-failed-to-do-so/#comment-22144 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:55:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1778#comment-22144 No doubt Alex Torpiano’s opinion is worthless, because he dares to disagree with the FAA.

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