Joe Grima: a really professional broadcaster
Actually, it's Demis Roussos
Here’s Joe Grima, bickering with somebody on timesofmalta.com’s comments-board, showing us how unbiased, ethical and professional he is when hosting TV shows.
Note to Joe: 1. Nobody over the age of 15 says ‘dude’ and certainly nobody Maltese. 2. Stop eating because you look ridiculous. Demis Roussos could at least sing. You can barely speak.
Joseph Grima
Dude. Because you know nothing about how the talk show businesss works I will excuse you for just this once: Let me appraise you about a few facts related to Monday’s INKONTRI
1) Not being in possession of a crystal ball I was not aware that the subject such as Lou Bondi would crop up. The show was about PBS not WE. Before the show many of the pannelists who speak to me tell me a lot of things that have to do with their intentions. What emerges from the show usually has nothing to do with what they tell me before
2) did you realise that throughout the whole show Peppi had his own persnal prompter on his tablet , I presume, suggesting what he should say? Who do you think that prompter was? My guess is that it was Lou Bondi
3. Did you realise that had the subject Lou Bondi not been raised Peppi would have provoked it himself? Peppi came armed with a laminated, large-lettered number which he threw in my face repeatedly, screeching that I should call Bondi. Peppi was determined to throw Bondi into the ring because it was Lou Bondi who badly needed defending. That, unfortunately for Peppi, turned very much against him.
4. Leave Peppi alone and you have 1 PN sypathiser who often finds it difficult to hide his inner political feelings. Put Peppi alongside Bondi and , in my opinion, you have a Machiavellian machine ready to spin and strike. All that Peppi offended righteousness which exhorted cruel me to call Lou Bondi and thereby ” create balance” was a cheap trick — a trap laid out by Peppi and Lou for me. Had I accepted to call Lou Bondi, we would have spent the rest of the programme discussing what Bondi said and what Bondi did not say. That was Peppi’s agenda to waylay the programme and to discuss something that had nothing to do with what I wanted to bring out. Instead, I ignored him and carried on with my own strategy for the programme which worked out extremely well. Peppi did very badly and has been spendng the week going from TV and radio station to TV and radio station trying to pick up the pieces.
5. In the TV business, which is inundated with wannabe presenters and producers for whom there is no opening anywhere, the smell of death reaches wannabe nostrils a million miles away. WE has been shown up for what it is. With an elextion coming, and a Malta that has changed dramatically, Peppi and Lou sit uncomfortably on the same PN laps that cultivated them for so long.Their time is up
Mr Pace: I have tried to explain the inner workings of talk shows to you hoping that this will not go over your head. Repent dude!
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I think he meant “xbin” not dude.
Oh I see that old brontosaurus, Joe Grima, is back in fine form.
Almost makes me nostalgic for boogie nights at Raffles and cikkulata Deserta.
I’ll bet he can’t wait to get his snout back into that pig-trough. Malta is one small ‘terrimot’ away from slipping right back to the future.
Good old fat Joe, one of the great ‘master(de)baters’ of all time.
When my jeans start to fit Joe Grima, I will start watching Inkontri, or rather I will stick watching one Inkontri programme.
I gather the first divorce to be granted by the Maltese courts was his.
Do they make jeans in that size, or do they simply sew a couple of Middle Sea Race spinnakers together?
Overweight people should not even look at jeans let alone wear them. I’ve seen myself George Pullicino in jeans and it’s definitely not a pleasant image.
I’m size 36, and if he starts a crash diet I will do the same.
I heard that this condition was put to him by a then MLP Bormla supporter. So I’m not being original.
No it wasn’t.
@ John Schembri – Maltastar reported the first divorce case as two well-known personalities who have been living apart for 21 years since their separation.
Joe Grima is not a well-known personality; he’s a notorious Laburist.
Mhux fier li ma’ nafux ahna l-kurjuzi min kienu.
Tafu. It was made public. At least if you read between the lines of a newspaper article a couple of days ago, where the couple’s lawyers were mentioned by name.
Come on Watson, you know my methods.
Grima forgets when the PN acted out of charity and gave him space on NET
When referring to newspaper articles it is customary, and good manners, to provide a link
This is not a newspaper article. It is a comment from a comments-board.
Whatever.
I missed the programme. Is it possible to see it on the internet?
Normally INKONTRI is on demand on Di-VE. However, and very strange indeed, this particular one is not.
Not if you have a spam blocker
Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, I know you better.
When you closed your file in front of the camera and said you were going to walk out, that meant you had lost control of your own show, and what a show. On your own Labour channel, surrounded with your brother and friends, yet taken over by yelling mob-like men.
Admit it, Joe, time waits for no one.
“Dude. Because you know nothing about how the talk show businesss works I will excuse you for just this once…”
I dread to think what Joseph Grima will do to the dude next time. The incident with Fenech Adami in Parliament back in the 80s comes to mind.
Dude, Joe Grima is from the Bronx.
Grima is a Zejtuni and what do you expect from the capital of yobs and bullies?
Demis Roussos had a nice line in kaftans. Perhaps Joe Grima should adopt that as his trademark look.
He gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “My friend the wind.”
As Lou points out here, with the Labour spokesman for broadcasting (Gino Cauchi) and its top talk host (Joe Grima) saying exactly the same thing as Jason Micallef, revenge on TV people the Labour Party does not like really does seem to be Labour policy, whatever Kurt Farrugia might say.
http://loubondi.blogspot.com/2011/10/hawwadni-ha-nifhmek.html#more
The dude abides.
what does net tv offers? maybe they should air a live program presented by the eccellenza daphne!! hows that!
Jabba the Hut would have been, I think, a better choice than Demis Roussos.
Joe Grima forgot the days when, after the arson attacks on his property, he went sobbing from one radio station to the other pointing fingers and begging for a job.
No one has forgotten either, who he was pointing at , at the time, for his misfortune.
Once a weathervane, always a weathervane,
In the past I’ve been a guest speaker on both Xarabank and Joe Grima’s programmes on Net TV.
As a rule, Grima’s talk sħows were purposely more confrontational than Xarabank; that is how he liked them as, at least back in the 1990s and 2000s, he fancied himself as the Jerry Springer of Maltese television.
His theory was that fighting and shouting always attract viewers and make the programme memorable. Peppi Azzopardi is right: most (but not all) of the fuss is really about viewership and advertising revenue.
In this particular case, Grima’s excuse for not inviting Lou Bondi is that he didn’t know how the squabble (I won’t call it discussion) would develop. It’s hard to believe but, if true, is not very professional.
Whatever the reason, Lou Bondi did end up as the main subject of the night and Joe Grima should have either called him or stopped his guests attacking him.
On the subject of rebels MPs, read this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15425256
“He has imposed a three-line whip – the strongest order a party can give – on Conservative MPs, meaning that any who vote against the government will be expected to resign from government jobs.”
So what is the Nationalist Party waiting for?
This was the first reply on Joe Grima’s post which you reproduced :
Lynn Zahra
Yesterday, 18:45
@ Joe Grima:
Joe, do you think people are so gullible they didn’t realise Peppi ‘s tactic was to derail the programme if you fell for his trick and called Bondi? See Michela’s article on the Times today, she certainly noticed that Peppi didn’t defend Lou at all!
By the way, apparently PBS gave Peppi more time to vent his anger at you on radio this morning , with Chris Scicluna attacking you – he’s still smarting from last Monday’s Inkontri apparently. Keep it up.
[Daphne – Couldn’t she have waited until he got home for supper? And telling the man you share a bed with to keep it up….ara, ahjar nieqaf hemm.]
These so called TV personalities look down at people when they rule the roost, just look at how they treat their guest speakers; some call them by their first name as if they were bosom buddies (qishom jieklu l-kirxa flimkien) and others go one step further by shouting at them and bang their fists on the table during the so called discussion.
When the tide turns against them they become tame lambs.
Somehow I see some parallelism with the last few moments Gaddafi was caught. He reportedly BEGGED his captor not to shoot him and asked him whether he ever harmed him personally as he handed him the (electroplated) golden gun.
Would ever Gaddafi beg someone when he ruled Libya with a (hidden) iron fist?
Joe Grima? I never understood the man. He’s past his sell-by date and would do very well if he seriously considered his permanent exit from the political scene.
[Daphne – Do very well at what? Selling slices of himself for summer barbecues?]
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in quite a while. I’m going to have a blast using that line.
Joe Grima is a blown-out-of-proportion money-hungry back-stabbing s.o.b.
He used NET while killing time until Sant resigned as leader, then rushed back to Labour. Maybe one day the PN will learn not to trust such people.
I have this feeling that dormant Labourites are starting to show their teeth once again.
[Daphne – ‘dormant Labourites’…I love it.]
With confidence running high and a Labour victory in the next election almost certain, they will want to be in the right place at the right time in order to get their slice of the cake which, like a mirage, has illuded them for way too long.
I had actually started liking Joe Grima because he had the guts to change sides and present a very balanced talk show on NET TV, although, one has to remember that this was during the time when Malta was heading for the EU referendum.
Joe Grima knew very well that the momentum was in favour of PN, so he wanted a slice of the cake.
Now that Labour seems to have the upper hand for the next election, Joe Grima is back to his old self.
Recently we have also witnessed Jason Micallef’s come-back with his typically unglamourous style which severely dented Labour’s ‘progressive and moderate’ image.
Who is next?
If we are going to see many of these old Labour style resurrections in the forthcoming months then Malta is in for a nasty surprise.
Why? Because come what may, the tide is far too strong in labour’s favour.
Unless Labour slips up very badly, I do not see anything/anyone capable of slowing down Labour’s rise to victory, and that includes victory for the these very people the country voted against in the last general election.
If Joe Grima interviewed John Dalli and Lou Bondi was mentioned, it was a MUST that Lou Bondi was to be asked for his comments as regards what John Dalli said about him.
The interview of John Dalli was recorded before the transmission of the programme Inkontri.
this one will be minister in a year or so…..
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=134198
tal-biza
When will Labour get rid of these little dictators who made our lives hell in the 70s and 80s? Get lost, we do not want you. Do we have to bring out the Flitt?
I used to watch Inkontri and Bondi+ on di-ve.com, but they don’t seem to be there any more.
Where can I watch past programmes? Can anyone help me?
All the Bondi+ episodes are there, including the ones from last week.
elextion? Nice one.
Dude, he needs to get Joe Azzopardi to give him some coaching, but why bother. He’s on Super One, where anything goes.
Super One shouldn’t be a station where anything goes.
It should promote quality journalism and tolerance for other opinions, and be a flagship for what the Labour Party stands for.
This country’s politics cannot go on the way it is.
Instead of focusing on important matters, we are seeing a trend where Super One kicks up a fuss about something minor, and then a game of ping-pong between both parties quickly makes it a hot national political debate.
Very often I find myself thinking whether the news headlines such as Cyrus Engerer exposing his boyfriend’s nude images is really so important for the welfare of this country.
Joseph Muscat should be busy reining in these Mintoffjani rather than visiting milk factories or emailing Sabrina Agius.
So for most of you and DCG being obese or overweight means no place within the PN, right? Because then that person would be stereotyped as a pig.
Who knows who the real pig is? I thought that The Times weekly Roamer just won the beach body of summer 2011! Keep up your insults, victory would taste sweeter at the end.
good riddance to all PN………
Don’t blame me. I’ve already written about Maltese waistlines and jowls in group photos during international summits. Overweight people have no place on Earth, let alone PN.
MaltaToday on Inkontri tonight. 3 out of the 4 panel members work for it.
Am I the only one to have witnessed this: On INKONTRI this evening, Julia Farrugia was scandalised that the PM did not take Joseph’s hacking claim to the Police.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111024/local/Hacking-claims-should-be-made-to-police-Gonzi-tells-Muscat.390472
For heaven’s sake, Joseph is the Leader of the Opposition. Does he need the PM to be his messenger?
What is there to report or investigate? Serves him right for showing a clear lack of judgement and foresight when exchanging emails with a second-rate journalist who forgets to log out of her gmail account.
U kif ma jisthix irid jimponi fuq il-PBS kif ghandu jitmexxa u xi programmi ghandu jaghmel?
Wara kollox dan kellu stazzjon tar-radju tieghu li niftakar meta fetah kien jirreklama pagni shah bir-ritratti tal-passaport tal-personalitajiet li dahhal mieghu.
U wara dik il-pompa kollha….x’success ghamel l-istazzjon tieghu? U mela kif jippretendi li hu xi maestro tat-tmexxija tal-broadcasting? Iktar il-PN pastizz li tah cans fuq l-istazzjon tieghu.
I don’t think it’s enough if >. I would expect Labour to say that the reason was that they don’t agree with their actions – past and present.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
Labour should give us more of this. Maybe it’s not their policies we need to see, but yet more evidence of how they will behave in government.
Why did they take all the trouble going to Joe’s brother to change the party emblem? Underneath, they are the same bunch from the 1980s.
So called TV personalities …. love it. Better still, self-proclaimed TV personalities, meaning anyone who appears on a cheap programme.
Did you see the Sunday afternoon programme on Super One, with Peppi, John Busuttil etc… How embarrassing. And they call themselves personalities, like Clapton, Madonna or Liz Taylor.
As expected, when Labour ran out of ammo in yesterday’s INKONTRI, they resorted to that old-time favourite Labour weapon, anticlericalism and the sixties, and piously shook their heads and beat their chests at Ms Agius’s perfidious employer, RTK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0dRe3h8JE
http://www.youtube.com/user/BestOfLabour#p/a/u/2/cqOgxRSLHVM
Now we know why its a crap show (apart from the obvious),
http://inkontri.weebly.com/index.html
“Lots of surprises.”
I do not see the surprises. It’s the usual stuff from the 1980s.
Sadly, it is likely that in 18 months’ time, this crap-TV-shows-guru will be the next PBS chairman.
Everybody remembers Joe Grima when he was an arrogant minister.
How he pretended to be moderate after elections etc.to the extent that NET TV asked him to host a show.
On his radio he started talking about democracy after serving in the Labour government.
Realta’ yesterday discussed future Maltese relations with the new Libya.
I was expecting to see well-known Libya experts like AST, KMB and Mario Tabone Vassallo on the panel.
What does simpering Marisa Micallef know about the subject anyway?