Tag: Free Press
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Simon Mercieca and MaltaToday: one chorus, and one paymaster
Those who constantly attack the Nationalist Party MPs and independent journalists who fight against corruption, have one thing in common, that is they have all been paid and backed by Yorgen Fenech himself. Both Simon Mercieca and Saviour Balzan who have been sponsored by Yorgen Fenech are constantly attacking independent journalists and MPs who fight…
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Rosianne Cutajar has a history of attacking Daphne Caruana Galizia following her murder
I think I have overlooked this aspect when presenting my evidence against Rosianne Cutajar in her libel case, where basically, I argued that Rosianne Cutajar was bribed by Yorgen Fenech to defend him in both Parliament and the Council of Europe. Here is a clip below of Rosianne Cutajar describing Daphne Caruana Galizia as a…
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More cash for the government’s propagandists
Saviour Balzan of LabourToday has bagged another set of government subsidies with a pseudo-scheme that is intended to help the press when the only independent newspapers part of this scheme are The Malta Independent and the Times of Malta. The rest, Kul?add, It-Tor?a and MaltaToday are Labour rags with the remaining being the Nationalist Party’s…
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Propagandists unite! You have nothing to lose but your government subsidies.
In more bizarre news from Malta, three major Labour Party propaganda organisations have formed a lobby group called the “Association of Media Owners”. These are Saviour Balzan’s media company, the General Workers’ Union media arm, and another media company owned by the Labour Party. They are joined by the Strickland Foundation which owns the Times…
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It’s the Maltese government that was in favor of spying on journalists not Roberta Metsola
Yesterday, Saviour Balzan’s pro-Labour rag, Illum, published a very bizarre editorial and caricature which I could not make heads and tails of. It started with an attack on Ivan Camilleri, a previous Times of Malta journalist who was accused of tipping off Yorgen Fenech before his arrest. I don’t know what’s the point of bringing…
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Robert Abela tells his MPs not to comment or to reply to this website and The Shift News and to speak only to MaltaToday
Yesterday, prime minister Robert Abela told his MPs through his official propagandist with an explicit order that they are not allowed to give any comment to this website or to The Shift News. Instead, they were told to speak only to MaltaToday with official statements they handed over by OPM. MPs were already not allowed…
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MaltaToday is being used as a prop for the government
I have many friends at MaltaToday and I’m also friends with Saviour Balzan, although I doubt he will appreciate my friendship after this article. Readers are however asking me why my story on the magistrate inquiry being concluded is running contrary to MaltaToday’s. Well, it’s obvious what is going on, and since Matthew Vella has…
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The Labour Party is going to implement very authoritarian laws against free speech
It is important to note that as the government will be addressing a problem of its own making so that nutjobs like Gordon Manche don’t file criminal reports on satire, the government has also presented the most authoritarian press reform in Maltese history. The government’s press reform will include these points: – The absolute right…
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Robert Abela won’t commemorate Daphne because he is a squalid and opportunistic coward
Many years of visceral propaganda against Daphne Caruana Galizia by ONE and the Labour Party has fostered great hatred for her amongst Labour Party supporters. A large segment of Labour supporters hate Daphne and the free press, so the Prime Minister and Labour leader, Robert Abela won’t do anything to commemorate her as that would…
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Finally, some anger
Journalists are finally waking up to the news that the government has taken them for a ride on its forced press reform. You can follow this thread on Twitter by Christopher Schwaiger to read about the journalists’ anger as they finally realise that the government is bulldozing a law about them in parliament without even…
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Where is the pseudo-committee of journalism reform?
Earlier this year, the government convened a sham committee of pseudo-representatives of the press, to present a set of sham reforms based on a sham proposal by the Prime Minister. I respect the judge who is chairing the committee but the judge has been put into an impossible situation as the committee is made up…