I have also stopped buying that new Labour daily, Times of Malta. They have done the stupidest thing possible: alienate their real readers to keep the elves happy, when elves don’t spend money on newspapers and even less money on the things that are advertised in them.

News items of major importance, frequently mentioned on this website, went unmentioned in Times of Malta, quite as if they never happened. Just like Super 2 Television. Sorry, I meant PBS.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofmalta.com%2Farticles%2Fview%2F20131119%2Flocal%2FEnergy-deal-depended-on-Labour-election-win-.495320%23.Uou0AMTbPME&btnG=#.Uou0FcTbPME

seeing as it was reported in this website almost a month ago:

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/speaking-to-international-oil-daily-gasol-chief-operating-officer-alan-buxton-said-the-success-of-the-project-relied-on-the-recent-landslide-victory-of-the-labor-party-which-came-to-power-in-march/

My thoughts and feelings exactly. The Malta Independent should seize this opportunity and redouble their efforts. I hear a lot of complaints that The Times has sold out to the Labour Party.

It has now become the Times of Malta Labour Party.

They can safely turn the fire prevention equipment off. They clearly won’t be needing it.

I would go out on a limb here and say massively massive.

The Times R.I.P.

Yes, I absolutely can.

My father followed his father’s custom of reading that newspaper and in the evening, after recreation and homework, I would take it up and read it too.

Admittedly, I usually started with the sports section first but gradually ended up scrutinizing all the pages.

This went on for many, many years until we got to the months before the last elections. Things started to change and slowly but surely, for reasons beyond my imagination, this newspaper transformed itself into a PL portal.

For many years, the PL had been trying to create a newspaper in the English language without success. Suddenly they had one ready made.

There is much speculation as to why The Times has become a PL apologist and I’m sure that one day we will know the reason. I have stopped buying and reading The Times for over a year now and like me I know of many. Pity.

But as the saying goes, nearly everyone and everything has a price and it seems that The Times is no exception. In the light of the above, I think that the following words from an old favourite song are very fitting…..”and the times, they are a changing”.

Of course we can. Does it mean we should all follow suit and dumb down for the benefit of this government and the Gattopardi?

Last time I posted on the Times the comment length limit was so small that you could hardly make a coherent point, let alone insert lectures about ethical standards.