Comments on: The government’s new propaganda poster: clearly, Malta is the new Lebanon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Catsrbest https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1122319 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:21:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1122319 In reply to Pavia.

Dak ghax kulma kellhom f’mohhom kien il-hmieg ta’ gazzetta li johorgu huma – ‘Il-Kullhadd’.

]]> By: P Shaw https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121749 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:25:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121749 In reply to bookworm.

All advertising agencies in Malta seem to be obsessed with beards or dirty shave. Most ads, including ads for suits, include men with scruffy beards or dirty shave. They must think it’s cool.

Beards/dirty shave and suits do not blend very well. This type of ad is very common in North Africa and the Gulf states.

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121571 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:18:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121571 In reply to Leslie Darmanin.

Is it an intentional error though? LP advertising paid for by Government?

“Economic growth” newly redefined.

]]> By: Manuel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121478 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:20:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121478 The PL have been putting up billboards since Muscat’s election as party leader. Brace yourself: we will see billboards for the next five years. Only dicators feel the need to “inform” the people of the “good things” the Government is doing. It is a way of alienating them from the true picture of administration.

]]> By: Paddling Duck https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121378 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:12:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121378 Probaby we’ll soon see PR release photos based on these:

Free Healthcare:
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18sr6azayv5jpjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

Scientific Research:
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18sr1p2shy3m9jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

Copyright DPRK

]]> By: DimitriFromParis https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121366 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:00:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121366 What’s wrong with Lebanon?

[Daphne – Nothing, but it has a social culture split between a European-influenced minority and a Middle-Eastern-influenced majority, and that is what is happening to Malta.]

]]> By: john tabone https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121340 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:32:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121340 Hi Daphne,

I normally follow your blog with interest and I must say you normally speak clearly.

However I cannot understand why you are comparing this advert to Lebanon’s public relations or something in that sort.

Can you please clarify?

Thanks

John

[Daphne – Not to Lebonon or Lebanon’s public relations, John. That couple in the government’s new public relations picture look straight from central casting for the new moneyed and over-groomed middle-class in Beirut. I find it ironic because I have long said that this is exactly the ‘measuring rule’ for Malta’s new mittikless: money, branded accoutrements, acquisition, a distinctly non-European style of dressing, talking, thinking and behaving, and clearly non-European values (by which I don’t mean anything to do with morality). ]

]]> By: Mr Meritocracy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121323 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:16:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121323 Isn’t it kulhadd and not kullhadd?

]]> By: charlie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121317 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:10:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121317 Part of that message is grammatically wrong: we write KULHADD and not KULLHADD in Maltese.

[Daphne – The Labour Party’s official organ is called KullHadd (every Sunday), hence the mistake, I imagine.]

]]> By: Alexander Ball https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/07/the-governments-new-propaganda-poster-clearly-malta-is-the-new-lebanon/#comment-1121315 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:10:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=34066#comment-1121315 Shoot me first.

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