In Malta the ‘progressive liberals’ don’t need to stab journalists; they use their own party machine and media empire to do it
Reuters reports:
Thousands of protestors rallied outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters to condemn a knife attack on a former newspaper editor and to voice support for press freedom amid growing concern over Beijing’s influence in the media.
Kevin Lau Cun-to, who until recently had been chief editor of Ming Pao, a Chinese-language newspaper known for its investigative reports, was stabbed in the back and legs several times by a man in a helmet on Wednesday.
Dressed in black and wearing blue ribbons, symbolising press freedom, protestors carried a large banner with the words, “They can’t kill us all”. Other banners and placards read “Freedom from fear” and “Protect press freedom”.
Police have not established a motive for Lau’s stabbing although suspicions have spread that powerful individuals from mainland China or pro-Beijing allies opposed to the city’s push for full democracy may have had a hand in the attack.
“We’re not going to bow to the intimidation,” said Shirley Yam, vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association, one of the organisers of the protest. “That’s the strong message we want to send whoever it is that the Hong Kong media is going to stand firm and do whatever’s best for press freedom and the right for our citizens to be informed”.
(…)
A week earlier, 6000 people protested in the Asian financial centre demanding the city’s leader uphold media freedoms. In recent years, Hong Kong journalists and rights groups have warned of mainland Chinese propaganda officials influencing newsrooms, deepening ties between Hong Kong media bosses and Beijing, greater censorship, and the dismissal of influential liberal journalists.
(…)
5 Comments Comment
Leave a Comment
I watched Andrew Azzopardi make an utter fool of himself on DotNet yesterday evening.
He thinks he can keep an equidistance from the PN and the PL, when all he did was speak like Muscat, which means saying absolutely nothing, everything and its opposite and stating the disclaimers first to affirm how principles are orphaned of their cardinal meaning.
He couldn’t even get himself to answer one direct question, the attempt to make the interviewer look biased. If Muscat cannot afford otherwise to be legitimised. Azzopardi’s contortions suit him fine.
And this one will be the academia.
I cannot understand why Net TV invites this idiot who is full of himself.
I know Malta is void of intellectual and normal discussions, and that the alternative to Andrew Azzopardi is Grace Borg, but still, Net TV should not be a replica of Xarabank.
Andrew Azzopardi: a flawed, but suitably degreed, wannabee desperate for accolade.
I couldn’t agree with Shaw and White more. (Prof?) Andrew Azzopardi cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
He tried his damnedest not to offend Muscat and his fallacious decisions. Another switcher. Remember how he defended President Abela’s decision to spend two million euros of Community Chest Fund money to build a clinic ‘for’ Darlene Zerafa?
Switcher? Just because he was given free run of PN headquarters in the run-up to the election doesn’t mean he was anything other than a true, old-school Mintoffjan. Yet another example of the Nationalist Party’s catastrophic inability to read people.