Comments on: “Your donation strengthens our freedom to lie about others”

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:35:46 +0000

In reply to Riff Raff. Bile.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:59:47 +0000

18,000 euros paid into the MaltaToday Libel Fund would pay for a lot of Whoppers. Joseph Muscat should consider it a lifetime investment.

By: ta' sapienza

ta' sapienza — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:34:30 +0000

In reply to Riff Raff. Saliva.

By: gel

gel — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:34:37 +0000

He also has a yacht tied up at the marina which he hardly ever uses. If he is so hard up, how about selling his yacht. Oh and he bought this yacht ‘taht gvern tal BAHH”

By: Interested Bystander

Interested Bystander — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:43:16 +0000

Mr. B, my reply is the same as the one given in the case ‘Arkell v Pressdram’. Pip pip.

By: Mark A. Sammut

Mark A. Sammut — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:26:18 +0000

In reply to Jo.

Point is, there are times when journalists are given tips, or even entire stories, which cannot be proved 100% in a court of law … or else the journalist is clumsy in the write-up … So, it is not always the case of lies. Sometimes it is truth which cannot be proved.

But not in Malta Today’s case. There were times when they did not mismanage the truth, because there was no truth to mismanage in the first place – they INVENTED stories with the clear intention to attack and destroy people’s reputations. These acts are worse than lies. These are criminal acts.

It is my deeply-held belief that criminal libel should remain on our statute books, because of the malicious abuse of the democratic right to freedom of expression.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:54:04 +0000

I’ve never fathomed why a decent man like Roger puts up with Saviour.

We all know what the gist of Saviour’s book will be anyway, don’t we?

“It is all Natalino’s fault”.

By: The chemist

The chemist — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:47:44 +0000

If it’s as cruddy as his videoblog, the publisher can expect a nice big flop.

As for the title, I suspect Saviour really thinks that about himself except that he’s as independent as his lawyer.

By: Michelle Pirotta

Michelle Pirotta — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:43:05 +0000

This is no original idea. Manwel Cuschieri, of “Manwelllll..ghallimna inti” fame, used to have a Libel Fund too.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:30:20 +0000

In reply to Mark A. Sammut. He is not the first one to do it. Some years back there was an advert in l-Orizzont asking for donations for a libel fund. But it appeared only once - they realised that actually they were advertising the fact that they were liars.