Akbar Zib on Super One right now
I've got a job in the newsroom at Media Today
Guess what. Saviour Balzan is on Super One right now, hosting a show called Oikos.
That’s right: there’s an O between the K and S.
It’s about birds.
What are the odds that he tried to sell it to TVM and they turned it down, hence his aggro against the whole of PBS?
Now I’m going to point out the obvious conflict of interest. Media Today sells its television programme to the Labour Party. If Media Today then criticises the Labour Party in its newspapers – not harsh criticism, you understand, just a little critique of Joseph Muscat every now and again – what happens?
Does Media Today lose one of its precious television programming clients? Or does the Labour Party keep paying Media Today while reading nasty things about its leader in Media Today’s newspapers?
The situation never arises, because if you read Malta Today and Illum on a regular basis, you will come to understand that there is no government in waiting. There is only a government.
As for that Akbar Zib and his feathered friends, nahseb ahjar imur jinfexx f’xi tigiega, forsi nistriehu lkoll – u jiehu l-Ronnie Pellegrini mieghu, forsi jibghat xi Facebook Valentine lil xi hamiema u jhalli l-Musumeci bi kwietu.
Ma, x’pajjiz tal-clowns. L-imhallfin gol-manikomju minnflok il-habs, u n-nutjobs jigru fit-toroq.
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Pellegrini pay attention minnu ghax he is a data collector u jkun jaf hafna affarijiet milli smajt fuqu qisu tal-FBI.
[Daphne – J Edgar Hoover, and the similarity doesn’t end with the data collection.]
Does it extend to blackmail (on the basis of data collected), allegations of being gay or cross dressing?
I agree with you 100% – he was very fond of Clyde Tolson.
Malta Today is steadily burning its news boats. No wonder they keep carping on in Robert Musumeci’s and Consuelo’s defence. They’ve little else to write about once they’re stitched up about practically everything else.
You neglected to mention that Alan Deidun, a PN candidate, is on the same programme.
[Daphne – Alan was a guest. Saviour is the host and the programme is produced by a company in which he is a 50% shareholder. Like I’ve said before, it’s easy to tell you vote Labour because your reasoning is completely off.]
@ Twanny
I have had more appearances on Super One as a regular guest on a number of programmes than I had on Net. But that has had no influence on my conviction or alliances, even more so as guests are not paid a cent, while the producers and hosts are.
Lately there was a thread about your interrogation at Police HQs. I cannot find it in the archive of this blog. Was this write up withdrawn? Can anyone help me to find it?
[Daphne – http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/06/sorry-but-i-was-busy/%5D
Twanny,
Why is it that you seem so spaced out on every argument. Is it a hobby?
Does this Akbar Zib want me to reach down and lift him up?
Il-mitiku John Holmes. X’unur li tinsab fostna.
My own personal impression of Mr Balzan is that the man has absolutely no idea of what ethics are.
He writes voluminously about how he thinks things should be run, done, said, perceived, thought out, worked out, etc.
But whereas he harps on his ideal world, he fails to realize that his stances lack an ethical dimension.
The man reminds me of a fire and brimstone priest who has an affair with the maid. The utter dissonance between what he writes about – at times very, very vehemently – and the stances he takes betray an undecided mind. What is even worse is that he hardly realizes this inherent contradiction.
Mr Balzan would make a fine journalist if only he were to find the interior strength to demolish 85% of his ego and resolve the psychological crossfire which goes on in his stances and writing.
Jinfexx f’xi tigiega? Ma tarax, dawk affarijiet tal-lower klass. Aktar hemm cans li jinfexx f’xi zring.
We have a lot of these Akbar Zibs. I hope that some day you mention them all, even on the PN side, people who run unions and have an agenda! Miskin il-Malti!
Oikos is funded by the EU. I found the content of the programme interesting though it could have easily been transmitted on radio.
Environmental issues on One TV scare away the hunters from the station.
Labour always wanted an English-langauge newspaper. They’ve got it cheap in the form of Malta Today.
‘Cheap’ in all senses of the word.
No coincidence that Labour’s ‘news’ portal is Malta Star.
From the name of the programme I would have imagined it was about houses because that is what oikos means. If they had a programme about birds and couldn’t think of a name, why didn’t they just call it Għasafar (Birds) instead of “House” in Greek?
All this posing to appear high-brow and creative backfires because because there is no substance behind it – just shallowness.
I guess they meant ‘habitat’ and got it all confused.
Daphne, you got it partly wrong, I’m afraid. The Malta Today stable of manque journalists has no conflict of interest with the Labour Party. The editor of Illum, Julia Farrugia, was last seen in December cavorting in her swimsuit on Comino on a reality TV programme to raise money for the Labour Party station.
Second act of this Sicilian operetta: our Julia is also the deputy chairman of the Institute of Journalists. So she expects to stand in judgement of other journalists’ work while she raises money for the Labour Party station in her swimsuit on Comino. Another Benny Hill episode.
Did they have a chase scene during the closing credits? You know, Benny Hill being chased by journalists in swimsuits.
And she uses her position in the said institute to ensure that a statement are issued in support of herself while ignoring – no, make that *loudly applauding* – the use of police action to suppress public debate.
I didn’t know there was a Labour meeting in Marsa this morning…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100225/local/police-in-wild-chicken-chase
Nahseb jixtieq Saviour ikun John Holmes, imma miskin kien u miskin se jibqa.
On a totally different subject, here’s another allegation of abusive behaviour by your uniformed friends:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100225/local/fr-montebello-hits-out-at-police-treatment-of-nigerian-man
snowing …
‘because he knows that Labour electors are even more conservative than those who vote PN, and a significant majority of them won’t like it.’
Daphne, you tend to overgeneralise. There are obviously staunch conservatives on the Labour side, both as in members of parliament as well as voters, but I am not sure whether taken as a whole Labour is more conservative than Nationalists.
Moral and sociological issues are not usually the most pressing concerns for working class voters while there is still an anti-clerical streak among the average Labour voter.
Anti-clerical and anti-conservative are not the same thing! There are liberal clergymen, and there are conservative atheists.
Conservatism and clericalism were the hallmark of the Francist regime.
Not all conservatives, however, are clericalist.