Wouldn’t our liberal and progressive government just love to do something similar? But it has no state news agency to dissolve.
Published:
December 10, 2013 at 8:02pm
Reuters reports:
Putin dissolves news agency, tightens his grip on media
President Vladimir Putin tightened his control over Russia’s media yesterday by dissolving the main state news agency and replacing it with an organisation intended to promote Moscow’s image abroad.
These totalitarians just don’t seem able to understand that their image abroad is a direct consequence of their actions at home, and not something random that can be controlled independently of their actions.
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Chomping at the bit, is the term that comes to mind.
“Let us rein them in….ejjew ha nikontrollaw il-midja taghna…”
Oh my God, it’s the FT editorial now. There us no end to this mess.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4468fc86-6198-11e3-916e-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2n0jL6WlO
What Russia needs is a revolution.
I like Putin because he is not politically correct.
Neither were Hitler and Stalin. Do you like them too?
Time for Joseph Muscat to visit Moscow. And to invite Putin for an official visit to Malta.
And perhaps a Maltese passport for Vladmir too; just in case …..
The PL does not need to ape Putin. Under its new regime PBS does not broadcast news unfavourable to the government as the recent Scicluna episode in Brussels confirms.
We are also in dire straits here. Never was there a more pressing urgency to promote Malta’s image abroad.