Times of Malta is infiltrated. Remember the instructions Muscat gave to that journalist not to move there from RTK because he was sorted and needed her where she was?

The net result is that the newspaper’s general coverage of stories is extremely superficial, verging on irresponsibility towards readers, and the efforts of a few journalists in that newsroom to doggedly persist in chasing up their own stories are now in stark contrast to the rest.

There is no uniformity: what you have is the occasional excellent story which you just know a journalist (always the same ones) has followed up on his or her own initiative and persisted with, in a sea of bland indifference.

So is Prime Minister Joseph Muscat saying that he does not believe in political responsibility?

Must a minister be physically present or perpetrate the act himself to be responsible for a wrongdoing?

Seeing how he acted on the Helena Dalli case it certainly seems that way.

Good luck Malta!

Very true

I guess it is like the traffic on the roads, power station timeline, ministers doing illegal construction, unemployment, meritocracy etc. Welcome on board switchers.

Well I, my family and friends have long stopped reading Times of Malta. It has become a farce. I hear most people saying it is unreliable. How sad.

If he has been released, it should now be possible for the British High Commission to answer that question specifically.

I take it that once the man is no longer in police custody; it is not against the law quoted by the High Commission to reveal the facts about that British citizen.

Can some journalist follow up with the High Commissioner?

[Daphne – Steve Morrison Smith is still locked up.]

Nobody believes a word they say any more.

You say that:

“And the whole of Malta would have woken up to the story that a drunken Scot crashed into Manuel Mallia’s car and sped on, leaving a trail of wreckage, but his driver bravely gave chase, shooting into the air, until the man was cornered in a nearby tunnel and carted away.”

I would add also that the prime minister would have nominated Mr. Sheehan for the Gieh ir-Repubblika for the sterling service rendered in defending the integrity of the wing mirror on the minister’s car and for making that barrani smell the coffee.

Sometimes I still think that inspite of all that is going on most still refuse to believe what we are back to. Many say it but don’t act as if it has sunk in.

Many Maltese are ‘angry and disgusted’ with this government but they still have to put up with it for a couple more years at least.

Actions is needed on both counts.