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Cartoon Network (Lovin Malta) has been a keen promoter of Labour’s most vile individuals

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Mark Camilleri
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The media house that has constantly and consistently promoted Labour’s most vile criminals is Cartoon Network (Lovin Malta). This is because anything goes for Cartoon Network as long as it brings hits, especially if it includes serial criminals like Neville Gafa or sub-literate vitriolic idiots like Jason Micallef.

In fact, Neville Gafa made his comeback in Maltese politics through Lovin Malta who promoted him consistently and constantly before he opened a blog to write fiction on Labour’s critics and openly and directly threaten journalists.

Bonus, they have even published a message by a psychiatrist undergoing two cases of domestic violence in court because why not? Anything goes.

They always conclude their posts with “What do you make of this article?”

I think they are clowns.

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8 responses to “Cartoon Network (Lovin Malta) has been a keen promoter of Labour’s most vile individuals”

  1. Maria avatar
    Maria

    I am convinced that all their international posts are written through the use of AI. Possibly even their national ones. At least the reporting text that is used on their social media, not sure on their website. Flat tone, abrupt transitions, inaccuracies. There’s a lack of human touch, which is why they add that ridiculous question at the end of each post.

    If not, I have no explanation for why they would start a post about yesterday’s presidential debate so flat that it’s as if Lina met ?u?i casually in the village market: “Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met each other in a presidential debate last night.”

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  2. an avatar
    an

    With all due respect, having someone like Tim Diacono running the pseudo-newsroom is reason enough for LoviNmalta not to be seen as a newsroom. Let’s face it, SKY News it ain’t. When the head of news goes up to a sitting MP and asks her ‘Rosianne min tahseb li libes ta’ hanzir fil-karnival tan-nadur’ or asking Jason Azzopardi to reveal his sources or to reveal who was at the cocaine sex parties over and over again – that shows you exactly what they are after – clicks.

    Not to mention when they get money from MTA and any other Gov Entity to be an official media partner for a state-funded event – it shows you another side of them – money.

    Enough said!

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  3. Tripaloski avatar
    Tripaloski

    Int possibli lejn il-Lovin qed thares minn tant? Mhumiex perfetti, imma lil kulhadd taw opportunita – Mur ara x’pastazati jitfaw il-Malta Daily! Sponsorship tal-gvern wara l-iehor u aghar minn hekk, kampanja elettorali jaghmlu intervista ma’ Bernard, Bobby, Metsola u Alex Agius Saliba… u staqsewhom fuq x’tip ta pastizz jipreferu!!! U hadd ma jghid xejn

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    1. Banquo avatar
      Banquo

      Mark Camilleri di?a kiteb dwar, u ikkritika, lill-Malta Daily.

      https://markcamilleri.org/2024/07/25/heres-the-kind-of-business-that-your-isle-of-mtv-taxpayer-money-is-creating-robert-abelas-propaganda/

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  4. Daniela avatar
    Daniela

    I just thought that they’re independent and report things from all parties.

    They seem to be doing long interviews with prominent people from both sides. Tim also has interviews with Bernard Grech and Jason Azzopardi. With the Bernard Grech one he also published the power cut which looked staged, then Miriam Dalli confirmed it wasn’t.

    In a democrazy (intentional typo) it’s useful to hear both sides I’d say.

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    1. Banquo avatar
      Banquo

      Letting popular people run their mouth without critical analysis or pushback is not serious journalism. LovinMalta started, I believe, as a genuine attempt to bridge clickbait (which supposedly attracts young people) with serious journalism (which the older folks may be more used to).

      The platform’s first Chief Executive Officer was Christian Peregin, who previously worked for Times of Malta and was well regarded, so I think there was an honest attempt to be an online news outlet of integrity, but ‘more fun’. However, as old-fashioned newspapers improved their online offerings and new players, bloggers and podcasters came onto the market, the clickbait side of Lovin’ won over, to attract readers.

      Mr Peregin left LovinMalta in 2021.

      Essentially, LovinMalta went back to its roots, which were always clickbait oriented. The website forms part of a larger international organisation called the Lovin Group. From the get-go, they were encouraging ‘brands’ to sponsor content and “connect with young people with useful, informative and engaging articles”, without making clear distinctions between sponsored content and independently-written articles. The biggest ‘brand’ in Malta is the Labour Party/government (they don’t draw much of a distinction), so you can guess how LovinMalta makes most of its money.

      The top article on LovinDublin is currently “Livin’ like a local”.

      The top article on LovinDubai is currently “Weekend Hotlist”.

      The Lovin’ brand never intended to be serious journalism. It was and remains mostly about sponsored content.

      Here is an article about the launch of LovinMalta:

      https://www.timesofmalta.com/article/International-media-franchise-to-launch-web-platform-in-Malta.609148

      And here are LovinDublin and LovinDubai for comparison:

      https://lovindublin.com/

      https://lovin.co/dubai/en/

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  5. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    Times of Malta last Sunday also decided to give Mark Xuereb a platform. Not a bad article, I must say, but why give an alleged domestic abuser a platform when you regularly run editorials about the need to combat domestic violence?

    Even taking into consideration the principles of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ and ‘drawing a distinction between one’s professional life and one’s private life’ (can you actually be a good psychiatrist to the vulnerable in public and an abuser of the vulnerable in private?), a serious media house should wonder if letting an alleged abuser use its space to promote services equates to enabling abuse.

    There are lots of intelligent people who could contribute interesting articles to the media, so why give up limited space in a newspaper to people who should probably, and could easily, be kept out?

    https://timesofmalta.com/article/the-suicide-conversation.1097683

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