You need to ask: why did they have that ceremony in the first place?

The Local Enforcement System Agency, a vehicle created for no purpose other than to wheel corrupt former Acting Police Commissioner Ray Zammit out of the police force, held a ceremony last Saturday to mark its first 100 days of operation.

The media coverage centred on the fact that the Justice Minister (Janice-whipped Owen Bonnici) refused to give a straight answer to the question of whether he thinks Ray Zammit can be trusted to head the agency – a question which makes no sense at all because he’s the very person who appointed him – and on the fact that Zammit scarpered and avoided journalists completely.

But that wasn’t the story, was it? No. The story is: why did Owen Bonnici, with or without the consent of Ray Zammit, feel the pressing need to hold a ceremony to mark the agency’s first 100 days? Who does that? It’s not as though 100-day ceremonies are compulsory, routine or expected. But he made a point of staging this ceremony, inviting the press, speaking to journalists, but then avoiding their questions while his chosen agency chief avoided the journalists altogether and not just their questions.

So why did they stage that event? That’s the story. That’s what you’ve got to be looking at.