Jahasra, help them, msieken.
Published:
August 7, 2012 at 6:33pm
Jekk m’ghandiex noqghod naghtihom il-flus. Imorru jaghmlu fund-raiser ghand Ta’ Gianpula.
The nerve. It’s not the cause that bothers me so much as the blinking cheek. The owners of that reeking newspaper, Saviour Balzan and Roger de Giorgio, are more than happy to splash money around outside their newspaper business and can well afford 18,000 euros between them, and much more, from their own disposable income.
But what do they do?
They ask for donations from other people’s disposable income, so that they don’t have to spend theirs on such an unrewarding item, and they dress it up as a common cause.
Imorru jixxejru.
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Doesn’t this classify as funding for illegal activity?
Terrorism.
Without getting into the merits of the cause, company funds are separate from personal funds that is why even companies owned by very wealthy individuals can and do go bankrupt.
[Daphne – I don’t suppose you actually imagined I didn’t know that, so I assume you’re just being disingenuous for the hell of it. That was my point exactly: companies don’t ask for charity to pay their dues. So if they’re going to ask for charity, from the disposable income of third parties, the obvious answer to a begging letter from the shareholders is: use your own bloody disposable income. Le, tajba din: they ask for donations to pay their dues, and then spend their own money on fun stuff.]
Where is your post regarding Claudio Grech?
[Daphne – ?]
Can Saviour practise what he preaches and be transparent?
If he expects us to take him seriously, he should publish, on a regular basis:
1. h ow much he has collected in his fund;
2. how many individual donations there were;
3. the names of donors who paid in excess of 100 euro;
4. what safeguards there are to ensure that donors do not buy his journalistic independence by paying protection money for themselves;
5. how much of that money has been expended on libel fines, and if so, in which cases;
6. who manages the fund;
8. whether the fund also covers legal fees paid to Toni Abela, deputy leader of the Labour Party.
I have one answer to Malta Today’s appeal:
INZ**AB.
you forgot an *
il-main sponsor x’ minnu? Ilu ftit ma jinstema.
Ghadu jfittex il-hackers?
As the saying goes, you make your bed, you lay on it, Salv.
If this incompetent, petulant twit didn’t screw up for not properly researching his slanderous stories, they wouldn’t need to beg to top up their libel fund. F–k ’em.
Come on girls, let’s have a whip-round for Saviour and Roger.
Don’t mention the word “whip”, or Michelle Muscat might get some funny ideas.
Can we organisie a BBQ for them?