Comments on: TVM, the public service broadcaster, has a new line in xenophobic coverage and the exposure of private individuals, in breach of the law https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sherif Haridy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1633816 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:05:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1633816 I am the Egyptian (not Syrian) mentioned in the article. Thank you for standing up for me. I’ve been living in Malta for the past 15 years and I’ve always respected the Maltese people and authorities. I was very saddened with this xenophobic coverage. I am sure that if it was a Maltese person who complained in the same way I did, he wouldn’t have been exposed the way I was. I think that I have all the right to do what I did.

[Daphne – You have a right under the law to write to the Data Protection Commissioner about this and request that he in turn writes to Public Broadcasting Services Ltd/TVM requesting that they remove that video because it was filmed and uploaded without your consent and you are a private citizen. TVM will have to comply or face a very heavy fine. There are no costs involved to you.]

]]> By: M.d https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1632531 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 01:06:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1632531 I am also disgusted by the article’s clear approval of the comments passed with a ‘lehen sod’, which are clearly xenophobic.

]]> By: P Bonnici https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1630721 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:22:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1630721 In reply to CIS.

He would have enough money to go to a private dentist and not wait in a long queue.

]]> By: Kevin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1630660 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:56:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1630660 A dose of reality: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26116868. Hopefully the xenophobes, supremacists, and racists among us might start understanding the plight of our Syrian neighbours and find it in their heart to empathise and help out.

]]> By: observer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1628924 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:03:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1628924 Section 82A of the Criminal Code (Chapter 9 of the Laws of Malta) makes it a crime to foster racism in print and by word.

I sincerely doubt whether Labour’s Commissioner of Police knows about this.

If he is, let him show it by taking action in the Criminal Courts.

If he is not, let him show it by resigning his post.

]]> By: Evarist Saliba https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1628648 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:15:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1628648 You have raised a valid point. What further action will be taken by TVM and the authorities concerned?

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1628343 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:38:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1628343 These haughty illegal migrants should be publicly whipped with a cat o’ nine tails.

They don’t do themselves any favours with their arrogant behaiviour and entitlement mentality.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1628256 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:17:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1628256 And what’s wrong with expecting not to have to wait? Muscat vouched we wouldn’t.

]]> By: Guzi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1628031 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:09:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1628031 As far as I know, TVM news portal is now in the hands of Charles Sacco, husband of Susan Mulvaney and son of Remig Sacco. Enough said.

]]> By: Painter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/tvm-the-public-service-broadcaster-has-a-new-line-in-xenophobic-coverage-and-the-exposure-of-private-individuals-in-breach-of-the-law/#comment-1627765 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:45:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44738#comment-1627765 Whatever he is, no one should film him just because he is a foreigner. Maltese people do this everyday but if it is a foreign person, people will get on their ‘qed jinvadulnha l-pajjiżna’ bandwagon and all the racist bigots will come out in full force and accuse him of bad behaviour while other Maltese do the exact same thing and get scot-free because ‘għandom id-dritt isemmu leħinhom’.

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