Tag: PBS
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Nexos Lighting and Silvio Scerri take over the Public Broadcaster
Following his takeover over the Valletta Local Council via his associate and ally Olaf McKay, Silvio Scerri has now taken over the public broadcaster via his previous employee and associate Keith Chetcuti. You can find an article about him here on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s website. Keith Chetcuti is replacing the previous CEO Mark Sammut. The…
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Imagine if we had decent journalists and quality journalism at the public broadcaster instead of this horrendous display of sleazy men
Earlier this week, the Labour-government propagandist Saviour Balzan delivered a propaganda show on the public broadcaster with Justice Minister Jonathan Attard and Adrian Delia. Literally, these are three corrupt men with shady pasts supposedly discussing between each other Malta’s most high-profile criminal case in its political history. I find this to be a representative display…
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Labour Party propagandist Quinton Scerri is behind the failed “Wanderlust Festival”
Who calls a family festival, Wanderlust Festival? Apparently, it’s Quinton Scerri, a propagandist that serves the Labour Party at the Public Broadcasting Services. Quinton Scerri has a very interesting history with the Labour Party. He was the Mayor of ?abbar before he was forced to resign from his post by the Labour Party fixer Ronnie…
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Saviour Balzan’s Xtra programme on TVM was sponsored by Yorgen Fenech
After Saviour Balzan helped Yorgen Fenech pen a denial of a story that was true, eventually, published in his newspaper MaltaToday, Yorgen Fenech replied to one of Saviour Balzan’s sales executives who had been chasing him for sponsorship. This is the business model by which Saviour Balzan funds his media business. He does consultancy, propaganda…
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We used to have Lou Bondi and Peppi Azzopardi, now we have Saviour Balzan. How do you like your change?
During the previous and consecutive Nationalist Party administrations, we used to have two household names that appeared on the public broadcaster regularly as journalists but doubled as PN propagandists. These were Peppi Azzopardi and Lou Bondi who together owned the Where’s Everybody company that the Labour Party used to accuse of having a monopoly over…
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Labour’s new precedent: indicting activists for protesting on public property
Yesterday, NGO Repubblika held an impromptu protest at the premises of the Public Broadcasting Services to protest Television Malta’s lack of coverage of its activities. Repubblika has been one of the foremost NGOs in the fight against corruption and its President, Robert Aquilina appears regularly in public meetings promoting the rule of law. His brother,…
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The lawyers representing the state broadcaster are the same lawyers of Kieth Schembri and Rosianne Cutajar
I think The Shift News has already covered this, but just in case, Mark Vassallo and Edward Gatt are currently representing the state broadcaster, Public Broadcasting Services. The Shift News covered the story that Mark Vassallo and Edward Gatt are representing the Malta Film Commission. Recently, the Malta Film Commission hosted the Maltese judiciary on…
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Did Jeremy Camilleri tell Jon Mallia he’s a director at PBS?
Jeremy Camilleri likes grandstanding against Labour’s critics as he receives his iced buns. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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Propaganda Broadcasting Services
The annual budget for the Public Broadcasting Services is the equivalent of 2021’s yearly increase in salaries and wages paid by the Office of the Prime Minister. According to the last Budget, the payroll of the Office of the Prime Minister increased from €12.5million to €18.5million from 2020 to 2021 – a 6 million Euros…
