Category: Mediawatch
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Daqqiet ta’ Harta
Tad-daqqiet ta’ ħarta! and Ma jistħux min Alla li ħalaqhom! These are the expressions that first come to mind within the first two minutes of watching this Labour oriented production (see “Inkontri” clip below). Sure, we have seen a tacky revival of “Tal-Barrani” and “Raymond Caruana” nostalgia from the PN corner of our dumbass political duopoly.…
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Reporter Ripped Apart
Saviour Balzan is anything but an investigative journalist. His agenda-driven interviews make that other paragon of “journalism above everything” pale in comparison. Saviour “interviews” but he is not interested in listening to his interlocutor in order to build on the next question. He’s busy labelling and selling stereotypes that fit into his idea of the…
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Mock George that Week
In a previous life when Ghaddafi was still alive and celebrating his 40th anniversary…. fast forward to around 5 minutes 24 seconds… and see the bit about our President….There was “one Western Leader. Like Mugabe and the others were there but there was ONE Western Leader”…. (Don’t worry… it’s already doing the rounds on FB)
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Hack the Dog 3 – Content
It risked becoming old news until Sabrina Agius asked the police to investigate the possibility of computer misuse (and yes, the Times is at it again so we know it is lawyers Emmanuel Mallia and Arthur Azzopardi who are representing Miss Agius – like that is of any public interest at all). SabrinaGate is still…
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L-Accjomu
It’s a Maltese expression. “Ġabuħ qisu l-aċċjomu” which literally means “they beat him till he looked like the ‘Ecce Homo’”. “Ecce homo” is a stage in the passion of Christ where Pontius Pilate presents the post-flagellated Christ to the people and states “Here is the man” (Ecce Homo). Religiously speaking it’s a powerful mystical moment…
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Hack the Dog 1 – Intro
Houston we have hackgate. We’d only just gotten used to the idea that the Where’s Everybody stables were engaged with the nationalist party in the provision of coaching services for politicians that we know have Joseph Muscat yelling “foul” about the possibility of espionage, hacking and other Big Brother activity. Muscat has got his balls…