Why let principles get in the way of profit?
Aleks Farrugia: if I keep this up long enough, somebody might mistake me for Oliver Friggieri.
Aleks Farrugia (don’t confuse him with the secretary-general of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti; this one edits It-Torca) has announced on Facebook with a sigh of relief that his newspaper’s ‘Pope’ pull-out special is ready at last.
Aleks Farrugia
Is-suppliment tal-Papa ghall-Hadd li gej fl-ahhar lest…
While Aleks himself is anything but keen on the Pope and Catholicism, and clings to the Labour Party’s official veneer of anti-clericalism, he knows that his party’s supporters are among the most religiously conservative in the country, even if only in name.
Why miss an opportunity to ratchet up sales and advertising?
Is-suppliment tal-Papa fit-Torca: now there’s a bit of an oxymoron.
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Christ Almighty, this guy needs to get to the beach and get a suntan!
Does he need to inform the readers of the Torca that he is intellectually challenged?
…as are the readers.
“Why miss an opportunity to ratchet up sales and advertising?”
…even when you’re a radical humanist?
Is he sitting in the bathroom?
That’s the last thing the Pope needs: his picture in the Torca.
Yes Troy – next to Fr Colin’s.
Fr Colin and guest/partner, please.
Hey Daph,
The elves at Maltastar/TasteYourOwnMedicine have been so busy squirreling around in your father’s family and your husband’s that they’ve forgotten your mother’s.
Il-KUGIN TAS-SAHHARA KERHA TAL-BIDNIJA JITKELLEM DWAR L-INXURJIN
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=8455
[Daphne – I don’t think they forgot. I think they’ve taken a commercial decision not to upset a major advertiser.]
Major emphasis on ‘they’, plural.
Alfred Zammit seems to quote the Catholic religion and values in his One programme on a regular basis. Fr Charles Tabone praises him for his policy and that of One TV and constantly tells him how he and the Archbishop appreciate all this.
What Pope? It-Torca Labour hypocrites.
Hypocrites is the right word. They do a supplement on Sunday to boost sales and then they come out with a ‘wonderful’ welcome title on today’s l-Orizzont.
Joseph Muscat kien qal li it-Torca tispicca min fuq l-Arma tal-Paritit. Ghax din tbezza lin -nies.