I am sure that all professionals and skilled workers do not declare their proper income.

It is only us employees and pensioners who declare their full income. From their life styles one can assume how much they earn.

[Daphne – It has to be a news.]

It has failed its mandate.

It is a corrupt government.

There should now be a call for elections.

If the President can’t and won’t do it, there will be another way.

Thank you for that.

The bit you quoted pretty much covers anything. They have no grounds not to register Daphne as an editor.

It’s a case of shocking abuse of power and withholding of rights.

And what about the editor of a book about current affairs?

Would they refuse to register the editor of the inews website just because it’s an online news source?

And would the editors of The Malta Independent and The Times of Malta websites (as opposed to the editors of the printed versions) be barred from registering? And what about the editor of the TVM website?

In fact, the whole thing is ridiculous. If it’s in the public interest, ANY citizen should have the right to request and be given that information.

How do they even define the term ‘newspaper’? Can’t the head of a radio or television newsroom ask for this information?

Are magazines excluded? Do the print newspapers handed out for free at bus stops and at university qualify?

If you print five single sheets of paper and hand them out to five random individuals, would that be enough to qualify you as an editor of a newspaper? And if not, on what grounds?

The law is ridiculously vague and being abused to keep you from registering. Going by their logic, a 24 hour news channel cannot ask for this information because they don’t publish a newspaper.

Once again, using the letter of the law to break its spirit.

Likely, the most popular newspaper in the US is the Huffington Post is an online newspaper, so much so that most politicians are interviewed by it (and seek an interview) during election campaigns.