Daphne taghti fastidju lil Charlon Gouder No. 3
Super One will publicise the power station in return for a small consideration.
From the archives: SUPER ONE DOES A BIT OF WHORING – FOR A CHANGE
It looks like the Labour Party will take money from wherever it can to prop up its ailing station where employees are paid peanuts so that Marisa Micallef can be paid to sit around and do nothing, which tends to be what she’s best at.
The Labour leader hectors the nation about the power station contract and Super One news leads the chorus. But hey, what’s this? Just before Charlon Gouder and the rest of the Super One law exam cheats come on air with the latest hot statistics on heavy fuel oil or whatever, the station airs paid-for government publicity for the very project Labour and its news media are so busy running down.
How does this work, exactly?
‘I hate your project and will make a political meal of it. But in return for a small consideration, I will be happy to publicise its finer points for you.’
Should Labour accept payment to advertise the projects it criticises? Definitely not. Super One is not a commercial station but the media arm of a political party and everything it does has to be consistent with the party message. That means not accepting positive publicity, against payment, for the very projects it campaigns against.
The government will obviously try to place that positive advertising to help neutralise Labour’s message (and because God help it if it doesn’t book with Super One), but that doesn’t mean that Labour should whore itself out and accept, which sends confused and confusing messages. ‘This project is Very Bad for Malta, but we’re happy to take money in return for letting others use us to tell you that it isn’t.’
This is just one step away from doing what Saviour Balzan does: criticising practically every government project he can think of, and then fulminating in print because the government doesn’t advertise those very projects in his newspaper. In other words, he’s happy to take money to promote them positively, but he’ll do the tear-you-down criticism for free.
What did I tell you – wacko nation.
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If they’re so desperate for money that they are reduced to charging people for the privilege of voting for their ’emblema’, then they’ll do anything – even advertise the government projects they criticise on the ‘news’.
That emblem is a waste of resources, even though it will be used to earn the party some desperately needed money.
There is no point in changing the emblem when the party hasn’t changed because the grass roots have not changed.
One day in future, the Labour Party will return to its existing emblem, as a return to “the glorious days of labour.” Do not underestimate how conservative Labour is.
Just remember the old faces are back