Go back to the other scum at VivaMalta.

That’s the problem with pseudo-liberals. They have no idea what being liberal is, but think it’s a cool label.

So the pseudo-liberals believe that a talk-show host can’t have a political life, even if his talk-show programme is popular.

True liberals, if they don’t like the talk-show, switch to another channel.

The Maltese are not a race, but Arlette Baldacchino and Norman Lowell can’t cope with that inconvenient fact.

They think they’re white.

On the subject of impartiality, in principle we’re saying the same thing. What I meant is that impartiality (or the lack of) does not apply in your case hence you never have to play either part.

Using your own words “A talk-show host doesn’t give his own opinions. He’s there to bring out the opinions of his guests.”.

My comment about Lou Bondi is that he makes his political opinions pretty obvious and he keeps repeating them over and over again in his blog, etc. even after the Broadcasting Authority (not me) remarked that his infamous calculations on Joseph Muscat’s proposals were unprofessional and he had to air PL’s reply in the following programme.

I don’t think people are as stupid as you make them.

[Daphne – Oh, not people in general, certainly, but when you consider that 45% of the electorate voted for the return of KMB as prime minister in 1992, and something like 49% voted to retain the status quo in 1987, well then…brains are not our strong point, are they.]

I wouldn’t mind Bondiplus on Net TV, but on TVM I’d prefer talk-show hosts of the likes of, say, Reno Calleja.

[Daphne – RENO CALLEJA? You must mean Reno Bugeja. But you just don’t get it, do you. Reno Bugeja and Lou Bondi are different ‘products’. You might as well say that a newspaper should have just one type of columnist.]

Now you may tell me that Reno Calleja is pro PL. The point is, I don’t know, because he doesn’t make it obvious to anyone and doesn’t go boasting about it all over the internet. It’s more a question of preference, rather than stupidity, but to each his own.

[Daphne – That’s it, preference. The state tv channel has to cater for all.]

Claire Bonello tried to set up her own blog too – http://clairescomment.wordpress.com/

It couldn’t have been very popular, seeing that it never really got off the ground.

“Oh, those green-eyed monsters!

Amanda Mallia
24 February 2008

From Ms A. Mallia

Reference is made to Lou Bondi’s letter (ToM, 22 February) regarding journalists’ silence following his treatment by the Labour (and pro-Labour) media, the bomb threat on my sister Daphne Caruana Galizia’s home, and the absolutely deplorable treatment of my nephew, a young man and a private citizen who had been provoked for 30 minutes by a cameraman and photographer.

Super One’s constant broadcasting of that news clip is nothing more than a form of incitement to hatred – political hatred and class hatred – and is a poorly disguised attack on his mother. We have come to this stage – persecuting the children to get at their parents.

What the Journalists Committee fails to realise, perhaps because some of its members are employed by political parties and that factor comes first in their order of priorities, is that it is not just Lou, my sister and my nephew who are the victims or the ones at risk here, but freedom of speech and democracy as a whole.

The fact remains that they are being treated in this unacceptable way because – love them or hate them – they both stick their necks out (“far enough to get slapped”, as one obnoxious journalist put it). Both do their jobs properly, sell well and have considerable audiences/readership. Those facts are undeniable, and perhaps this is the real cause of the lack of support from their colleagues. The green-eyed monster is raising its ugly head.”

http://www.independent.com.mt/news2.asp?artid=65494

Mark Anthony Falzon, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and the occasional column by Stephen Calleya. That’s about the sum of Maltese journalism.