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Lilu l-King was a well-known criminal and drug dealer before he was indicted in Court

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Mark Camilleri
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Liam Carter excused his presence with Lilu l-King in a video on Instagram by saying that the video was taken before Lilu l-King was indicted in Court. Liam Carter also said that he was doing a documentary on Paceville during that time the clip was taken and the clip is unrelated.

I always publish right of replies while I am happy to challenge my narratives constantly. I als think things throgh before passing observational and emperical judgement.

There are some issues with Liam Carter’s right of reply. As a journalist filming a documentary about Paceville he should have knwn that Lilu l-King was a very popular cocaine dealer. Lilu l-King also used to be a regular at Paceville’s bars even spending thousands of Euros in his establishments every night. To a more wider general public, Lilu l-King was known as a sword-wielding violent maniac.

I think the problem here is that many people have the wrong idea about journalism given that the Labour government has turned the public broadcaster into a dumb propaganda machine. The Labour government has spread a shallow journalistic culture of amoral popular contests based on personalities. Everyone wants to be seen with the hottest personality of the time, irrespectice who the personality is and what do they do. All that matters is how much views and likes will this personality provide. This is the same reason why Tim Diacono of LovingMalta is filling his content gap by giving regular coverage about the warped political opinions of Joseph Muscat and his criminal associates.

 

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2 responses to “Lilu l-King was a well-known criminal and drug dealer before he was indicted in Court”

  1. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    People can get confused about what real journalism is because propaganda looks very much like it, at least on the surface. Propagandists write articles, conduct interviews and film scenes of crimes, just like real journalists do. The difference is in the spin and interpretation they give to every story, and only well-read and well-informed consumers of media can tell the difference between the two.

    Very often, modern propaganda takes the shape of omission rather than commission. Instead of posing awkward questions and exposing awkward facts, propagandists skirt around issues by refusing to mention certain facts, reporting as blandly as possible about a story when they cannot avoid mentioning it at all. This makes it seem like less of a big deal.

    The solution in theory is independent journalism (though people love their public broadcasters because they think of them as ‘official’ and therefore ‘correct’), but, even if you are into ‘independence’ what is more independent than a guy with lots of passion, zero resources and a YouTube channel? The problem is that the (perhaps genuinely independent) man with the YouTube channel is selling conspiracy theories (together with advertising space).

    Those who are semi-literate, only mildly informed or just generally confused and don’t know how to separate the wheat from the chaff tend to therefore believe either the ‘official version’ of things (public broadcasting) or the ‘most independent; (crazy guy with a YouTube channel). Genuinely probing, independent and truthful sources, with their complex writing, nuanced thought and more questions than answers, are the easiest to cast aside. No wonder independent journalists and media houses doing excellent work get such low trust ratings.

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