Look what happens when the press gets excited about a clock and ignores the really important stuff
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June 26, 2013 at 12:19am
The prime minister runs away with the idea that he can do what he likes, because journalists are not bothering to hold him to account and ask him searching questions, persistently.
In The Malta Independent today:
On the government’s commitment to reduce the energy tariffs, he said that it was a positive sign that the media wasn’t bombarding the government on the situation tied to the energy plans, adding that this meant that everything is going ahead as planned.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-06-25/news/whistleblower-act-to-come-into-force-by-end-july-pm-1911521280/
Part of the media is adhering to Joseph’s instructions, not to bother him about energy, medicines and other hot subjects.
This is the absolute pinnacle of the Maltese looking-glass world.
There is a splendid quote attributed to William Howard Russell, one of the finest journalists ever to come out of the British Isles, who was The Times’ correspondent in the Crimean War. He had a terrible relationship with the British generals, who wanted him to tell his stories their way.
During a quarrel with Lord Lucan at Varna, he is reported to have retorted: “I have MY duty too, my lord, which is to inform my readers, and if you don’t like what you’re doing being reported, why then, don’t do it! And that’s my advice to you!”
Hear, hear!
Exactly what is going ahead as planned? He has less than 2 years to build the whole thing, and no one is asking questions?
Was he misreported? It’s more likely he meant that because the press don’t ask any questions, everything can go ahead as he’s planned.
That was a quick reaction to the criticism about the Whistleblower Act, but it still won’t change the fact that Labour did its utmost to whitewash John Dalli before introducing it, during a quiet month.
That message was received loud and clear.
How sad for Malta that we do not have real journalists in this day and age.
Joseph Muscat and Co are having a field day and not a journalist in sight to question them.
Thank God for you Daphne, pity though that you claim that you are not a journalist.
[Daphne – I claim no such thing and never did. I am patently a journalist, just not a reporter or interviewer anymore.]
Maltese ‘journalists’ only seem to ask only the pre-planned questions on their tablets, without a single impromptu or follow-up question there and then.
I wonder what sort of training are they receiving both at the University and also by their supervisors/editors.