Investigative journalism update: Justice Minister’s girlfriend covers PM’s speech for party-owned station

Published: January 10, 2015 at 7:26pm




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  1. josephine borg says:
    January 10, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    And what about when Simon Busuttil’s girlfriend covers his press conferences?

    [Daphne – She doesn’t. She doesn’t cover anything to do with the Nationalist Party, or the Labour Party for that matter. But then she doesn’t work for the party station, either. She works for a proper newspaper.]

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    • Sun Tzu says:
      January 10, 2015 at 11:02 pm

      Glad josephine borg made this point. When Kristina Chetcuti began her relationship with Simon Busuttil, she agreed with her editor not to cover political issues any longer. That is how you recognise people of principle. They do what is right because it is the decent thing to do, not because they are forced by laws or political expediency. I shall not make odious comparisons.

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  2. Allo Allo says:
    January 10, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Bright red cheeks and nose?

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  3. C.Portelli says:
    January 10, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    Nous sommes Charlie.

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  4. Brian says:
    January 10, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    Kemm hu facciol u gifa, dan il-bicca ta’ l-art; twekkejna bih fuq din il-bicca blata.

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  5. Mila says:
    January 10, 2015 at 10:02 pm

    Tan Zuoren was sentenced to five years in prison for drawing attention to government corruption and poor construction of school buildings that collapsed and killed thousands of children during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province. The Chinese government blocked all inquiries into the issue, and Tan’s volunteers were harassed and beaten.

    China’s constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press, but the opacity of Chinese media regulations allows authorities to crack down on news stories by claiming that they expose state secrets and thus endanger the country.

    The websites of Bloomberg and the New York Times were blacked out in 2012 after each ran reports on the private wealth of Party Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Wen Jiabao.

    State secrets and endangering the country indeed! And yet this is who the Maltese government entrust major projects to.

    http://www.cfr.org/china/media-censorship-china/p11515

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  6. Mim says:
    January 10, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    Remeber that insistence by the present government on not featuring negative news?

    In China ”The list of prohibitions issued to editors ranges from the extremely broad, such as the injunction against “negative news,” to the bizarrely specific, such as the ban on the blooming of a particular flower in southern China.”

    I could only find a partial list at the link below, the full list would surely provide interesting reading however.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/world/asia/22banned.html?_r=3&scp=30&sq=china+internet&st=nyt&

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