Norman Vella apologises for missing the obvious
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December 12, 2013 at 6:17pm
How much more guilty of professional shortcomings, then, are the particular full-time journalists at Times of Malta who literally hounded the then finance minister about that godforsaken clock, and turned it into the main issue of the campaign?
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Vroom Vroom goes the red race car …
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Now that is what I call a fair and unbiased person. Humble enough to admit a shortcoming but noble enough to recognise an oversight. Prosit Normam. You have struck an octave with me. I think that one of my immediate worries for next EP elections has been resolved.
I wonder if he would still be so candid, had it not been for the fact that he got stick from PL.
Malta all over again. Leaving a hundred-euro tip just because the chef replaced the salmonella-infested eggs. You don’t go from civil servant to journalist to MEP just by admitting a mistake.
Totally agree. It’s hardly as if the Nationalist Party were working with perfect knowledge of the situation, even though as we learn, the Labour Party withheld information it did have on the issue.
I don’t see such a great fuss being made on the Labour withholding of information which should be a crime in itself considering the approach they took.
Norman Vella should be pleased enough that he did a good job when it counted. Improvement comes with time and application. How is he using his journalistic skills right now?
Perhaps he could be organising his own set of interviews and publishing them.
I don’t subscribe to this mentality of hindsight apology if a person has done his utmost beforehand. Somehow it comes across as a marketing technique.
I’d rather have a marketing technique that stands up as one and goes somewhere in the process.
A man of principle is a man who is willing to admit his mistakes.
Well done, Norman.
His mistake was to chase after copies of ten-year energy agreements.
We can all forget for the aplogy from the Times – as we all know there is a reward called ‘Times Talk’ on TVM.
It’s a good start and the right thing to do. Unfortunately, the damage has been done.
What is this? Apology season?
First Edward Scicluna, then Simon Busuttil, now Norman Vella.
What are these apologies supposed to do? Placate the electorate to garner votes?
They should have done their jobs properly in the first place. In private industry mistakes like these are classified as lack of professionalism and usually land you a formal warning or the sack.
W.O.R.D.
As for Simon Busuttil, the only apology he should offer is a giant one, on behalf of a party that found an atavistic and stupid backwater, and let it wallow in its atavistic stupidity, while showering money on the worst specimens ever to infest the island.
If any of us vote for his party it’s only because we’re terrified of its opposite number.
Since when was building a country not wrought with contradictions, tension and injustice Baxxter?
Potential is key, locating it method, let Labour squander opportunity, betray their fear by threatening to ship refugees.
Who said Labour’s in power? To date every attempt held back, revised or scrapped. Sometimes Malta pre-empts the times, skipping linear progress.
Never was a government so blatantly useless, helpless and pitiful. Representational politics vitiated by media tricks, an art, is dead.
Or better, that breed of politician, is short lived.
Not good enough, Norman. Not by a mile. You are in fact part of the reason why PL are in government and had the same PL thought otherwise about taking your programme off air, you would not be using this tone or making such an apology.
No Norman, its not even near good enough, particularly when you have nothing to lose and all to gain by making such an ‘apology’.