Comments on: This despicable behaviour is now beyond belief

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 11 May 2014 14:15:19 +0000

In reply to Zambitwo.

That’s because it is usual for leading articles in Maltese papers to be badly written and incredibly boring. When the occasional good leading article appears, it makes the headlines precisely for this reason.

In the main, Times of Malta shows a worrying deference to authority that is the antithesis to good journalism. A good journalist believes nothing, questions everything, and doggedly pursues the story until the end.

Maltese journalists do the opposite. They believe everything, question nothing, and give up after the cookies are brought out.

By: Zambitwo

Zambitwo — Sun, 11 May 2014 11:00:20 +0000

The Times of Malta is competing with PBS in making Joseph and his gang ‘happier’.

[Daphne – I don’t think that is a fair assessment any longer. The newspaper and especially its sister Sunday carry some very good reports about government business, though they have the resources to do a great deal more. The editorials of both newspapers are often particularly astute, as with today’s, but unfortunately people tend not to read the leading article or understand its significance in a newspaper.]

By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 10 May 2014 21:56:37 +0000

A cornered rat will bite the cat.

The MLP is desperate.

It will try anything no holds barred.

This is to be expected after a swathe of unbelievable cock-ups.

By: ACD

ACD — Sat, 10 May 2014 21:50:10 +0000

In reply to Coronado.

No, it can’t. That’s why I barely ever visit it any more – and I’m not alone either.

This is a graph of the timesofmalta.com rank from Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/timesofmalta.com

Do you notice a trend? In the meantime, since the election and their site redesign, The Independent has climbed to 10th, overtaking Malta Today (11th) very recently. This website weighs in at 13th.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Sat, 10 May 2014 20:26:27 +0000

I see Times of Malta’s back to its old tricks. Indeed how covenient spreading what amounts to slander.

Can we please quit the power games and work towards Malta electing the MEPs it deserves?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 10 May 2014 20:01:49 +0000

This shows panic in the Labour camp.

The whole Claudio Grech matter was done to death in 2012 after our now Law Commissioner and master of pen drives threw a tantrum and blurted out that he was better than him because he was a good boy when he was young (cue the bringing out of form IIC report).

By: RF

RF — Sat, 10 May 2014 19:44:37 +0000

Joseph Muscat can’t justify his obnoxious behaviour so he resorts to his usual tu quoque defence, by bringing up unrelated cases.

No comparison to Cyrus’s vile act towards a fellow gay man. It looks like Cyrus has some skeleton of Muscat’s in his cupboard.

By: Gee Dee

Gee Dee — Sat, 10 May 2014 19:43:56 +0000

If this spiteful vindicative excuse of a man Engerer lives one thousand years he will not achieve what Claudio Grech has achieved to date. Whilst Engerer and his father want to decriminilize drugs, Claudio Grech has set up a foundation using his MP salary to assist young people who have such problems. But of course that has no news value for “The Times”. Shamefull indeed.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Sat, 10 May 2014 18:39:42 +0000

The Times dishing dirt on behalf of the MLP. Why are you shocked?

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Sat, 10 May 2014 18:34:09 +0000

‘The PL said the Opposition leader did not say anything about how Mr Grech (Claudio) had falsified an ID card, a crime he had been found guilty of in court.’

This is the height of irresponsibility. For Joseph Muscat a silly mistake committed in youth seventeen years ago and for which Claudio was conditionally discharged is equal to a 2 year jail term suspended for two years for theft, illegal entry, distribution of pornographic material with the sole purpose of harming the victim and blackmail.

Interestingly enough this case was originally brought to light by none other than Franco Debono, Cyrus Engerer’s defence lawyer the same person who blackmailed Cyrus’s victim into submission and into accepting to drop the case against Cyrus Engerer.

The case only continued because all the other illegalities committed by Engerer were not under the control of the victim.

The truth is that Joseph Muscat and Cyrus Engerer share the same lack of values with Franco Debono.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120808/local/franco-debono-to-protest-to-pn-executive-over-claudio-grech-s-candidacy.432058