tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768638652494078944.post6432609230453069093..comments2024-03-17T15:48:46.030+01:00Comments on Mark Montebello's blog: Id-diżkreditu ġurnalistikuMark Montebellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17534256136254865742noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768638652494078944.post-6024996408736652222018-02-04T18:31:19.393+01:002018-02-04T18:31:19.393+01:00Skuzawni li nikteb bl-ingliz, imma jien kwazi anal...Skuzawni li nikteb bl-ingliz, imma jien kwazi analfabeta fil-Malti. Mhix haga sabiha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768638652494078944.post-37820366443353398312018-02-04T18:19:12.867+01:002018-02-04T18:19:12.867+01:00"Ghira" alone doesn't explain the be..."Ghira" alone doesn't explain the behaviour of GUE/NGL deputies, falling in line behind the neo-franquistas and their admirers in the PES. It's also true that Maltese Labour has stringently avoided establishing any dialogue, let alone productive cooperation, with the European Left. Perhaps because the "moderate", "nobghodu l-union" "hbieb ta' Josie" know that the vast majority of the Party's consituency -- and quite a few PN-voters of peasant origin who're trapped within the blue clientelist system -- would, given the opportunity, prefer GUE/NGL-type policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768638652494078944.post-9829130240947979112018-02-04T18:06:10.986+01:002018-02-04T18:06:10.986+01:00Then we weep when PN mobster-canvassers carry out ...Then we weep when PN mobster-canvassers carry out a terrorist attack, martyrizing "their" prime propagandist just when it seemed she'd started to lay golden eggs for Joseph Muscat, with the predictable effect of punishing the electorate for daring to entertain such a low public opinion of the PN. Again, here I am raising the Cui bono? question, which is what bona fide investigative journalists should do and should have been doing all along. but alas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768638652494078944.post-47506964353857961252018-02-04T18:01:01.871+01:002018-02-04T18:01:01.871+01:00Even though within Labour circles people were well...Even though within Labour circles people were well aware of the PN-organised crime nexus, they have studiously avoided making a public issue out of it. Needless to say, the new government refused to 'lustrate' the PN-organised-crime elements operating within state structures, even telling its constituents to "for get their past grievances and let bygones be bygones", let alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768638652494078944.post-76221303399749939962018-02-04T17:44:45.658+01:002018-02-04T17:44:45.658+01:00You're right about this. However one should ke...You're right about this. However one should keep in mind that both before and after 2013, Labour has been deliberately missing plenty of opportunities to denounce and delegitimise the Nationalists based on their atrocious record of violence, human rights violations and blatant thievery and abuse of power regardless of whether or not they happen to be in government. News outlets like Telesur, Amy Goodman, Morning Star (GB), Aftonbladet and il manifesto could only echo the same bias as the major press agencies... because where was the other side of the story? Had non-PN organisations and public intellectuals (I'm looking at you) made any sustained year-on-year effort to counter the lies and misinformation about the experiences of ordinary people blasted 24/7 from the PN propaganda machine, there might have been someone to brief not-necessarily-hostile foreign journalists about the facts on the ground, and more pertinently, about what questions they should be asking. "Cui bono?" and so on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com