Comments on: The Chairman of the Institute of Maltese Journalists can't speak to me because he's in Geneva

By: Frans Borg

Frans Borg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:02:57 +0000

“And what sort of institute chairman finds himself with a libellous cock-up on his hands and postpones dealing with it for two days until his return to Malta so that he can save on his roaming charges?”

Ilalla – what a joke!

By: TROY

TROY — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:47:00 +0000

Julia should get to the ‘bottom’ of this.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:25:43 +0000

In reply to jowsef. Speaking of ‘silver dress’, Lil Din is currently window shopping in Paris for a dress to wear in the occasion on Malta’s EU presidency in 2017. Back in Malta from her exciting gita, she'll sit down and write a brief to Christian Dior, while her husband wraps up his 20 year plan.

By: Ping!

Ping! — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:04:24 +0000

In reply to erskinemay.

Is this the penny?

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/concepts-and-ideas/character-traits/6572162-penny-drop-bounce.php?id=6572162

By: Mandy Mallia

Mandy Mallia — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:53:45 +0000

In reply to edgar. And what photo would that be? Am I missing something here?

By: Mandy Mallia

Mandy Mallia — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:52:42 +0000

In reply to Alan.

Stephen Tonna Lowell’s wife also lived opposite us in Milner Street.

Small world …

By: Sherry

Sherry — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:06:43 +0000

In reply to edgar. Min jaf. Forsi minghand zewgha li forzi jismu Louis.

By: Albert P. Town

Albert P. Town — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:53:30 +0000

In reply to Ciccio2010. Daphne has already told us that she writes her blog from various places in Malta and abroad, from across the Atlantic too for that matter.

By: Becky d'Ugo

Becky d'Ugo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:42:11 +0000

In reply to jowsef. Love the jacket, Daphne! Very stylish.... is it Desigual? Read some derogatory comments online about what you wore to court. Perhaps they expected you to wear a sjuut? Or a silver dress? [Daphne - Yes, Desigual. Dawk qabda injoranti li ma jifmhux sahta. To them, style is a biznizsjut with a Burberry scarf, u kollox gris jew iswed, b'xi court shoe u xi hajlajts bjondi u xeba foundation qisu maskra. The Maltese look.]

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:52:46 +0000

The IGM’s statement breaches its own code of ethics.

Article 4 d states that the following is in breach of ethical behaviour:
“Whenever it is established that a significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distorted report is published, and no prompt and prominent correction is made.”

Anyone who picked up and published the statement as factul breached article 4m:

“Whenever false or misleading or distorted reports are published.”

And Super One (identified by IGM as a victim), breached article 5:
“In reporting accident and crimes consideration should always be shown to the victims and the next-of-kin especially in filming or the taking of pictures…”

And their friends and allies at Media Today breached article 7:
“All reports of crimes and court proceedings are to be strictly factual and a clear distinction should at all times be made and explained between the facts and the expression of opinion.”

And article 12 lays out what the IGM should do next:

“Whenever, after due process the Commission finds that a journalist has violated one or more of the rules of this Code of Ethics, it may impose any one or more of the following sanctions in accordance with the gravity of the offence:
a. disapproval
b. censure
c. grave censure

In appropriate cases, the decision may be given whatever publicity the Commission deems fit. In all cases, the Commission shall also communicate its decision to the Organizational Head of the journalist concerned.”

We can now look forward to the IGM issuing a statement of grave censure against itself, along with Super One and Media Today, while communicating its decision to themselves as they are their own Organizational Heads (sic).

In Malta Today’s words, the farce continues.