Mark Camilleri has had a (badly spelled) hissy fit
Mark Camilleri, new Labour appointee to the chairmanship of the National Book Council, has had a bit of a hissy fit because I wrote that as a 25-year-old who is inarticulate in two languages he is wholly inappropriate for the position.
He has shot straight to change.org to start a petition:
Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jeffery Pullicino Orlando and Franco Debono: Stop stealing our headlines
Petition by Mark Camilleri, Malta
We are bored of your silly antics and we don’t care if you all hate each other’s guts. You are popular among the Maltese folk, but you are not improtant to the world. So, take a break, go home and stop stealing our headlines. The world is a big place, bigger than your little rivalries you cherish so much. Thank you.
I believe in encouraging the young when and where appropriate, and I rather agree with him, so I signed it immediately with the following comment:
I so agree. Unlike those other two, I absolutely detest being in the headlines. My job is to write about the news, not make it. Unfortunately, Franco and Jeffrey seem to believe I should be the news – and then when I am (against my wishes) they get competitive, with me and with each other, and try to score some headlines for themselves. Sadly, they are that sort of southern Mediterranean man. What can you do.
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Brava. Clear thinking. Logical and without theatrics.
Daphne,
I’m afraid your generosity and public-spiritedness might have been slightly misguided here. I suspect that ‘our’ headlines really means ‘their’ headlines i.e. tractor stats beloved by Socialist regimes everywhere.
You’ll miss the Pullicino Orlando Debono headlines when they’re replaced by stories about the price of petrol going down a few cents.
He is not a Socialist but a Marxist /anarchist of the (ex- Xirka)Varist mould..
He can’t even spell ‘Jeffrey’ right. And yet, they’ve placed him as Chairman of the National Book Council.
Oh, the irony.
Jeffery! Improtant! A Book Council Chairman who can’t even spell or be bothered to check back over a couple of lines of text.
Actually, that was written before you blogged about my post.
[Daphne – Really, Mark? I wouldn’t have guessed it, with only eight signatures. You could at least thank me for mine.]
Yes, excuse me for being inconsiderate and thank you for signing the petition.
[Daphne – It was my pleasure, Mark.]
“Stealing the headlines?”
So let me rephrase this, the Chairman of the National Book Council is asking the Commissioner of Laws of Malta, chief of constitutional reform and the Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology appointed by the Labour-led administration of Joseph Muscat, to go home, have a break and refrain from stealing his limelight.
Another prima donna in the making.
Batman would not make the headlines were it not for the antics of villains such as the Riddler and the Joker.
And what exactly does the National Book Council do?
Cyclical onanism.