Category: Mediawatch
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Hack the Dog 2 – Possession
The email correspondence between Sabrina Agius and Joseph Muscat occurred between a g-mail account (Sabrina’s) and a private email account on josephmuscat.com (Joseph’s). At no point is there any correspondence from a work email address (rtk.com.mt). The most we can assume is that Sabrina accessed her gmail account during work hours using an internet connection…
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Not Matt Bonanno (contd)
A few days ago I wondered out loud (or rather on this blog) how come the Times found it so easy to accept a certain style of court reporting. In the post “When your surname’s not Bonanno” I had given the example of a court report in which it was blatantly evident that the most…
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Everything is ok
Effin brilliant.
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Press On (a preview)
Here’s a snippet from tomorrow’s J’Accuse column on the Malta Independent on Sunday. I am a strong believer in the role of the press, of books and of ideas in the functioning of a proper democracy. As John Milton wrote in his Aeropagitica “He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself”.There’s much truth in…
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The Coach & Horses
Much is being made about Peppi Azzopardi’s side-career as a “coach” to prominent persons in the political sphere. Such persons tend to be, or have been, of a nationalist persuasion although I have it on good record that Peppi has also given non-nationalists the benefits of whatever expertise he has – admittedly within campaigns that…
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The Sacking of a Journalist
The fourth estate being what it is, the news of the sacking of a trainee journalist (he was on probation) in a particular set of circumstances warrants careful examination. J’accuse has a long history of criticising the workings of the mainstream press and is not about to hold back now. I am of course referring…