Comments on: That bitter sod, Matthew Vella, does a Nakita – but obviously, he can’t be sacked https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119864 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:33:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119864 In reply to A. Dimech.

“Iran will be watching closely, our correspondent says.”

Oh, Malta Today even have an Iran correspondent!

Bill Gates must make that copy+paste function a bit more intelligent.

]]> By: A. Dimech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119642 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:00:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119642 A friend of mine on Facebook spotted another plagiarised news item which is equally blatant. Compare the two articles below:

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/world/Iran-set-to-dominate-EU-foreign-ministers-talks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15978420

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119603 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:07:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119603 In reply to Mario Dalli.

He would need to understand the article in order to paraphrase it. I think that is somewhat beyond his abilities.

]]> By: 'Angus Black https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119530 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:20:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119530 Harder to paraphrase, easier to plagiarize.

]]> By: Mario Dalli https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119491 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:44:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119491 my oh my. Kelma b’kelma. He could at least have had the decency to paraphrase it.

]]> By: Dee https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119467 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:28:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119467 It is more then ample proof of the low opinion Matthew Vella and Salvu Balzan have of their readers’s intelligence . They assume that people are too dumb to notice.

]]> By: Insolja https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119460 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:20:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119460 @ ”Matthew Vella, doing the total tosser thing of pretending he was on the Libyan front… ”

A stablemate of his also claimed to have been in Libya at the height of the crisis.

]]> By: Intellect https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119400 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:53:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119400 I spotted this and commented in a different blog article this morning…I have since informed the BBC of Maltatoday’s lack of professionalism (not that I expect anything to happen of course). However I’ve done my part…

]]> By: anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119396 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:49:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119396 It could be Vella wrote both reports himself.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/that-bitter-sod-matthew-vella-does-a-nakita-but-obviously-he-cant-be-sacked/#comment-119382 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:40:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15057#comment-119382 As his T shirt says, sigh.

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