Are there any Labour WAGs who, for a large consideration, would take on the job of writing comprehensible press releases for the DOI?
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September 24, 2013 at 11:42pm
Look at these two, for instance – and these are just the titles:
SPEECH BY THE HON. CHRIS CARDONA, MINISTER FOR THE ECONOMY, INVESTMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS, AT A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE (EESC) ON ‘THE SINGLE MARKET – YOUR IDEAS TO CHANGE IT’
MINISTER MANUEL MALLIA ANNOUNCES THAT HE WILL APPOINT A DIRECTOR FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AT CORRADINO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO INITIATE A PROCESS WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE COLLECTION OF PROPER RECIDIVISM STATISTICS
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But they are writing in the democratic way. Everybody and his brother can understand that Manglish.
That’s interesting – proper recidivism. As opposed to what – improper, false recidivism?
Proper statistics.
Labour statistics as opposed to Gonzi ones maybe?
Who would the “stakeholders” be (a beloved Maltese word that!) if not the Minister himself? He’s the one who should be collecting proper statistics. And it’s not like he needs to carry out random sampling or any of that Edward Scicluna wizardry. Recidivists, by definition, are criminals who get caught. So he only needs to check the database at Police HQ.
This is a fascinating Maltese approach to problem-solving: just enlarge the discussion group. Dilute the focus. That way we can take until forever, making everyone feel as if they’re actually doing something, while reinventing the wheel in a 500-page report that costs millions.
Perfect, Baxxter.
I gather an additional clue is in the title: a “stakeholder” dying to rehash an old educational programme that had already hyped the recidivism perspective: with a publicity angle ‘cut/ commission’ for the dear Minister for the decrease in recidivism that will now certainly be celebrated in the press in time for the next elections, and a tagged repute for which will be designed to outlive his tenure as Minister.
I thought though that such comparative statistical studies were normally based on a 20 year span when joined at the hip to an educational process?
What’s up with the all-caps writing? Are they shouting or stamping their feet?
They might be doing it to save us time from reading the press release, since reading the heading is more than enough.
The good thing is that by the time you read the title, you have the right excuse not to read the rest of the release.
Lanqas biex jiktbu lista tal-haxix li xtraw mill-pitkalija ma jinqalghu.
This can’t have been vetted by Michael Falzon, Czar for the Simplification Process.