Je Quote – Good Night and Good Luck
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by jacques in Mediawatch
This week’s quotes that make you go ooh- from the rest of the world to Plategate.
The Rest
“If you’re going to be a controversial writer, you have to expect people to have an opinion about you and you have to take the rough with the smooth”.
- Anna Ford (former BBC and ITN news presenter and seventies feminist icon) on Martin Amis this week.
“Let me just say absolutely clearly… I have never, never hit anyone in my life”. -PM Gordon Brown reacts to dramatic allegations of staff bullying. Would exposing a politician’s or public official’s bullying antics be considered fair comment?
“Civil servants reported that Mr Brown’s mood was ‘absolutely black all the time’ and that staff were ‘afraid of him because he was always shouting at people, being unpleasant, constantly blaming poeple for things going wrong.’ – Extracts from the book by Andrew Rawnsley (The End of the Party) which contains the allegations about Mr Brown’s notorious temper.
Dare il colpo del k.o. al campionato a gennaio e febbraio può accadere solo in Lussemburgo, in Liechtestein o a Malta. – Jose Mourinho, Whinger Coach.
Former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici insisted today that Malta should leave the EU and the Partnership for Peace and continue to be neutral and non-aligned as laid down in the Constitution. – KMB. He still doesn’t get it.
Cut me, paste me, bite me. - J’accuse’s suggested Facebook status for the month.
Good Night & Good Luck (Plategate)
The columnist in this case raised certain pertinent points in the magistrate’s regard which need to be followed up. But her assertions would have carried far more weight had they been backed by evidence and devoid of the needless personal element. That said, it must be pointed out that she is by no means the only person involved in local journalism these days who has breached what we believe to be the border of what should be printable and what should not. In fact, some people willingly engage in what can only be described as print terrorism. – the Sunday Times (Editorial) catches up on Plategate.
Wonder of wonders, for the mainstream media it is as if nothing is happening. I find this silence quite strange or ungilded. - Fr Joe Borg’s blog (still latest version on 22 feb). When ignorance is bliss.
BondiPlus is planning Monday’s edition to be about the furore over the magistrate and the politician, with communications expert Fr Joe Borg as the sole guest. – Daphne plans Bondiplus (the Runs, 19th February)
He’s (Fr Borg) the only one who’s written about the subject dispassionately so far, in the mainstream media. I know because the producers rang me for statistics, a copy of the charge sheet relating to the twin, identical defamation suits involving Miss Piggy and Kermit, and some general information about this blog. – same blog, same date 19th February. We get Mr Dispassionate but no Runs on the programme? Is anyone going to ask why DCG will not be on Bondiplus tonight?
Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East. – Edward R Murrow – J’accuse instructions: For Saturday replace Monday. For Ed Sullivan replace Lou Bondi. For American education replace Maltese democracy.
But the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the Junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been confusing the public mind as between the internal and the external threats of communism. We must not confuse dissent from disloyalty. We must remember always, that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another, we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we dig deep into our history and our doctrine, we will remember we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who dared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Sen. McCarthy’s methods to keep silent or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom wherever it still exists in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the Junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his, he didn’t create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it, and rather successfully. Cassius was right, the fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Good night, and good luck. – Edward R. Murrow
60 Responses to “Je Quote – Good Night and Good Luck”
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I think that some recognition is due to our host. One could easily see were it wanted to head. That the eventual fare was tame low-key and shallow as the journey ended up ‘stranded in mid-ocean’ must have been due to the logical and professional inputs made by a small number of contributors, which list of contributors certainly includes our host. Fresh spin-attempts will possibly be made but, as I see it, they may be running out of time. All-round behaviour can now be properly and serenely assessed by the courts.
“anna 22 February 2010 at 22:15 #
It was done in a hurry prob at daffy’s insistence …do u think it is a coidence that her court case starts next week? What is she expecting ppl to take to d streets protesting in favour of freedom of speech and chaining themselves to the qorti gates?”
Of course she does! Some of the lickspittles writing on her blog told her so, and carrying pitchforks too.
And the question is: What was the “scoop interessanti” Lou was talking about? Surely not Toni Abela’s article because it could not have been scooped having been published on the Sunday papers (and having the unique quality of being a Sunday paper article read by Lou Bondi other than those written by Fr joe Borg).
i thought that the scoop was that Mr bondi himself knows all three protagonists thereby confirming that he too frequents social gathering hosted by one of the individuals under the spotlight.
Amuseming was the impression given that the blog was being viewed by an overwhelming number of persons.
Now a figure of some 70,000 hits per day was given. Taking my own pattern, I have gone into the blog on average six times a day for say 5 days. This was also due to the fact that blogger was posting a good number of contributions even if most were of ‘entertainment’ value’ only. Therefore most of the hits were hurried one to see if there was any new addition.
Now if, on average, a person would hit the blog say 5 times a day, that would translate into 14,000 persons only.
Therefore, assuming that a person hit the blog a very conservative 2.8 times a day, the blog would have been seen by an optimistic upside estimate of just 6.25% of the population. So much for the hype.
danny, and that excludes all the people who came upon the log through odd searches for keywords like ‘blow jobs’, slut, gay etc. by daphne’s own admission, there are a tonne of those: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/22/on-twitter-mygaydvd-sends-out-a-tweet-about-emmanuel-mallia/
I think the scoop lou was trying to sell us was that toni abela knows something but didn’t go to the police with it… “xokkanti” I think is the word he used…so with the same reasoning, why didn’t daffy go to the police with her portfolio of “evidence” on why consuelo should be made to resign?
Time and official documents proved Senator Joseph McCarthy right…..there were Soviet spies in the US State Department.
And a couple of Soviet spies were friends of Edward R Murrow.
Ah. Guilt by association. That mother of all crimes!
It’s not a matter of guilt by association….it’s a matter of attacking the Senator coz your friend is a commie.
Again, he was proved right. Time and time again.