13 Sep The Chief Justice about the Times
THE TIMES, Friday June 8 2012
What the Chief Justice said
I refuse to cooperate with, and thereby encourage by answering your queries, the kind of deplorable sensation-seeking tabloid reporting which The Times of Malta has been resorting to as of late in connection with judicial events when ordinary day occurrences, such as the ordering of the arrest of non-show persons and the revocation of bail as well as complaints about the failure of attendance of prosecuting officers, have been painted as some rare “noteworthy ” happenings.
A magistrate was first painted by your paper as a villain because her order to revoke bail was declared illegal by another magistrate, with her photograph taken on a happy occasion splashed in your paper like a mugshot of a criminal, but then, all of a sudden, she was turned into a heroine because popular feeling evid-ently turned in her favour.
In reality, she has never been either a villain or a heroine but a magistrate who was quietly going about the performance of her duties like many other magistrates who have been doing the same thing without ever having attracted the attention of your court reporter, who seems to labour under the delusion that whatever happens outside his earshot has simply not happened.
In a similar vein was your reporting of a few remarks made by a magistrate venting his frustration at the absence of the prosecuting officer, which remarks have been repeatedly uttered by magistrates from time to time in the course of the execution of their everyday duties without ever being noticed by The Times of Malta, as if the frustrations of a magistrate who has been to Bosnia-Herzegovina carry more weight with The Times of Malta than the frustrations of magistrates who have never been there. Utterly appalling.
So, please, you do not have to wait any longer for replies from me to your queries. I am disappointed that I had to spell out the message, which my silence to date was meant to convey.
Yeah Whatever
Posted at 10:55h, 14 SeptemberThe Times Online should not put sensationalist tabloid style articles as first item on the headlines. These should be put in a separate section.
While everyone is discussing the international situation concerning the attacks against the US, The Times puts kids jumping in the sea as headline. This was accompanied by a long video containing interviews containing repeated boring questions asked by an interviewer trying hard to mimic the British accent.
il-Bully
Posted at 16:16h, 14 September@ Yeah Whatever
What else you expect from this newspaper, a lot of workers are employed not on what they are capable of but who recommend them, experience is referred to loyalty to the editor, the Board of Directors, members of parliament and the expert Joe Fr. among a long list of others who run this place with the same elite name.
Don’t worry the paper will sell after all as a minister ones said: We are cuc Malti.
tghalimt
Posted at 10:14h, 14 Septemberjien ma nixtrijiex u ma naqrahix. inhossni ahjar. in my opinion, qabel kont bombarded with unexplained and inaccurate and incomplete information.
Il-wied tal-Marga
Posted at 09:48h, 14 SeptemberDid The Times report when Victor Scerri ex PN President and PN Candidate was fined 500 euro by Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona? Was it given prominence? Because it is very unusual that a lawyer is fined 500 euros.
Did The Times ever report about Stephen SPiteri’s lifestyle and how it impinges on his parliamentary post? Did the Times ever report the fact that Stephen Spiteri had never filed his declaration of assets in parlament in clear breech of the Code of Ethics? This is what would be interesting in The Times.
BETTER FUTURE
Posted at 08:45h, 14 SeptemberGate keeping par excellance? Or a new junior reporter? Or feeding small sweets to avoid divulging large scandals?
Inqumu l-ahwa inqumu ilkoll!
Posted at 07:42h, 14 SeptemberImma kif fl-Ingilterra, anke It-Telegraph tesigi li tikkritika lil Gvern Konservattiv anke meta ikun fil-Gvern-ghax hekk titlob id-dicenza, hekk titlob d-demokrazija, hekk titlob is-serjeta u l-verita; imma hawn, l-gazzetti bl-Ingliz ma jghidu QATT xejn kontra l-klikka fil-partit?
X.medokrita hi li tqabbad bloggers, u ‘artikolisti’ thallashom bil–konsulenzi mijiet ta eluf ta ewro, biex min fil-ghodu sa fil-ghaxija inadfu l-hmieg li tahlli warajha l-klikka?
U taht taparsi ingliz tajjeb, artikolisti, johorgu fil-berah l-parokkjalizmu taghhom, jilghabuha ta liberali u progressivi u anti-razzisti, imbaghad, fl-istess nifs ikun razzisti ma min jikkritika lilhom, bhalek Franco….u ma minn ma joqghodx ghal ordnijiet li johrog Richard ipappija tajjeb, u GonziDCG?
Dawn mhux favur il-Partit ikunu qed jiktbu, imma favur buthom, u tal-familji taghhom, waqt li the ‘great unwashed’ jigiefieri ahna, nitqannew bil-pensjoni mizera ta darba fix-xaghar li twassalna biss sat-tielet gimgha? Qumu l-ahwa, innehhu lil-klikka li serqet lil partit, ghal interessi taghha, u ta dawk madwar il-klikka. Inqumu l-ahwa, inqumu ilkoll, fi hdan il-Partit, biex inkeccu l-klikka li hakmet lil Partit…..kif konna inkantaw meta l-partit kien taghna u mhux tal-klikka!
il-Bully
Posted at 08:06h, 15 September@ Inqumu l-ahwa inqumu ilkoll
Very emotional words, prosit, I was one who risked it all, even got punched in a polling booth when the PN in those days could not find volunteers, to represent the party during voting time.
Those days where hard and dangerous. Since, the party has changed, lost the true Nationalists and replaced them with Opportunists, these will again go Labour once Labour gain power.
I believe to brake the camel’s back all we need is a straw, with our vote we refuse to vote.
Yes my friend I understand my dear friend Franco who I never met because his cry is my cry and that of a lot of Nationalists.
I will not vote for Muscat and neither Gonzi.
Francista
Posted at 05:37h, 14 SeptemberFranco mhux ha joqghod bi kwietu qabel jara li l proposti tajbin tieghu isehhu.
Jekk mhux illum,isehhu ghada jew pitghada.
Franco mhux ha jieqaf qabel dan isehh.
U dan ha jsehh zgur………ghax la Franco ghamilha missjoni tieghu li jara l Malta tirriforma ruha u terga tirpilja u titnaddaf……..
Dan isehh zgur.
L istorja qeda tinkiteb
Dawk l erba li ghamluha missjoni taghom li jfixxklu,nghidilhom……..ghalxejn……give up……qed tahlu l hin….Franco is a Winner.
Spinning and weaving
Posted at 23:19h, 13 SeptemberIl- Pravda ilha tahdem ghal klikka; fuq il-program tieghek ta nhar it-tnejn li ghadda iccensurt kollox! Ara kieku xi hadd minn tal-klikka jispjuna fuq page personali tal-facebook,din malajr tipprintjah headlines! Il-kummenti favur tieghek huma iccensurati Franco, waqt li kliem despregativ kontra minn hu kontra l-klikka ihalluh ghaddej!
Kliem kontra GonziDCG hu iccensurat u ma tistax tikkritika lis-sahhara ghax jiccensurawk!
Gatekeeping rules OK for the Pravda:allaibierek fuq skandli tal-klikka rari nisimghu xi haga waqt li dak li ippapija ‘busy’ jghaddi kummneti lill-editur x’ghandu jispinja jew le! Issa l-loghba drajniha!
Spinning and weaving
Posted at 23:19h, 13 SeptemberIl- Pravda ilha tahdem ghal klikka; fuq il-program tieghek ta nhar it-tnejn li ghadda iccensurt kollox! Ara kieku xi hadd minn tal-klikka jispjuna fuq page personali tal-facebook,din malajr tipprintjah headlines! Il-kummenti favur tieghek huma iccensurati Franco, waqt li kliem despregativ kontra minn hu kontra l-klikka ihalluh ghaddej!
Kliem kontra GonDCGzi hu iccensurat u ma tistax tikkritika lis-sahhara ghax jiccensurawk!
Gatekeeping rules OK for the Pravda:allaibierek fuq skandli tal-klikka rari nisimghu xi haga waqt li dak li ippapija ‘busy’ jghaddi kummneti lill-editur x’ghandu jispinja jew le! Issa l-loghba drajniha!