As someone commenting on the story, you should be the first person to answer that question satisfactorily. It’s because it’s news, plain and simple.

€250,000 isn’t that much of an investment when you come to think of it in news terms, and having a student hurling abuse at a minister who is politically responsible for a fiasco is quite something.

I sincerely doubt it was one of the editors who put in that unfortunate “Heroine” heading, to be quite honest.

[Daphne – An editor’s job involves checking all the pages, ESPECIALLY THE FRONT PAGE.]

You really have no idea, do you?

Brian, yes, your comment was insensitive.

This man in particular found himself in this pickle not because he was out to do a disservice to his profession or to organise a coup on Gatt.

It was simply an error of judgement which his superiors seem to have found to mean that he could no longer work as a journalist with the Allied Group.

May I remind you that Matthew Bonanno did not work on the story himself.

Your jibe inviting him to join a Theatre Studies also happens to be unfunny as well as insensitive, so congratulations on that double whammy.

If you were to put yourself in his shoes, you might begin to see why I said your comments were insensitive.

GWAP you are so right, BUT, are we better or worse when it comes to the quality of some newspapers and or information sources?

During Miss Mabel’s time we used to consider her newspaper a reliable source of news and information.

Hanqa ta’ hmar qatt ma waslet is-Sema.

Standards don’t age, much less die.

Only opportunists change standards according to their needs. We are talking editorial standards, reporting standards, language standards and not Sundays rant by Joseph Muscat.

Standards are not subject to U-turns and do not vary from village to village, topic to topic but are constant across the board.

l-Orizzont, Illum, Maltastar, MaltaToday and it-Torca share the same standards or better, sub-standards. The Times, from time to time, seems to be gravitating towards the standards of the aforementioned rags.

Mabel would have had nothing of it and along with Bonanno, half the staff would either not been hired in the first place or sacked at their first boo-boo.

Stopping at Bonanno would be a disservice to the readers who over decades have always relied on accurate news, fair analysis and above all, the correct use of the English language.

Maybe Claire Bonello should be put on notice since in today’s The Sunday Times she conveniently omitted to say that Minister Gatt’s incident at the university was preplanned by the student in cahoots with Bonanno.

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[Daphne – Yes, I read it. You’d do well not to sound like a 16-year-old if you wish to be taken seriously at 23. Have you considered that Allied Newspapers’ decision not to keep you on might have had something to do with this aspect of your general performance?]