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Have journalists investigated?

During the electoral campaign a number of serious allegations were made against gonzipn candidates, namely Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Tonio Fenech, George Pullicino, Ninu Zammit and Jesmond Mugliett.

The gonzipn - at least that was what it called itself during the electoral campaign; maybe it has now become the Nationalist Party again - vehemently denied these allegations and defended the persons concerned.

These gentlemen were all subsequently returned to Parliament and are therefore still under the national spotlight because they are representing the people who voted for them and they will be drawing salaries from the public exchequer. Two of them have been selected as ministers.

However, the public has a right to know whether these allegations were true, or false.

May I enquire whether journalists such as Lou Bondì, Peppi Azzopardi, Daphne Caruana Galizia and others have investigated these allegations in order to present the truth to the public? Has the editor of this leading newspaper ordered his newsroom to conduct similar investigations?

If not, may we, the public, know why not?

I may be wrong, but in my estimation the very art and profession of journalism is that of getting to the bottom of things and presenting the truth to the public. The public has a right to know.

Conversely, am I to understand that as no journalistic investigations appear to have taken place that, similar to our bottom positioning in recent Eurostat reports, Malta is also at the very bottom of the pile as far as journalism is concerned?

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Comments

alfred agius (on 22/3/08)
Daphne admits that she is neither a police inspector nor a reporter. We know that but she could well be an investigator in the case of Mistraspin...so much information and leads that she may follow! Undeed she is a columnist, senza carita` cristiana and without a sense of balance and impartiality...
Corinne Vella (on 21/3/08)
Has Albert Fenech investigated former Labour ministers' wrong doing?
Mario Longomare (on 21/3/08)
I would dare to write that mud-throwing journalists (especially on a particular station belonging to one political party) should be investigated and asked to justify their allegations. In the case no proof of their allegations is brought to the police, they should be arraigned and made to pay for their misdeeds.
Alex Ellul (on 20/3/08)
Prior to the 8th March elections I had commented in this newspaper as follows: "Those who throw mud shall drown in quicksand". That's what the MLP id doing right now.

Our Lord |Jesus Christ was once confronted by a group of people who transported a paraplegic man for the Lord to cure. He told this man that his sins were forgiven. The pharisees, (hypocrites) on hearing Him said that He was blaspheming because only God could forgive sins. Jesus was promt to tell them: What's the easiest thing to do, tell a person that his sins are forgiven or to tell him to rise and walk? So He turned to the sick man and commanded him to rise and walk and also to carry his own stretcher with him. A thing which the man promptly did. The Gospel's teachings are timeless.
Moral: It is very easy to throw mud. The difficult part is to make Malta work. When a person reverts to mud slinging and nothing else it means that he has nothing tooffer. Now I am sure that I will be accused of riduling Dr. Sant or the MLP. I do not need to. I leave that to the MLP proponents.
Daphne Caruana Galizia (on 20/3/08)
No, Mr Fenech - I haven't investigated anyone or anything and I don't intend to because (1) I am not a police inspector and (2) I am not a reporter, but a columnist. By the same token, may I ask whether, as an occasional contributor to the magazines edited by your fellow Labour supporter who shall go unnamed, you have investigated the income tax returns of certain former ministers in former prime minister Sant's former cabinet?
Yves Cali (on 20/3/08)
Dear Mr Fenech, the cases you mention are all awaiting court sentences for libel. And how come you ommitted to mention the Mangion/Vella case?
James Sultana (on 20/3/08)
Dear Mr. Fenech, they will never investigate these cases .... or to phrase it better "they will never investigate these cases unless the people involved are not to the liking of big brother".

They will never admit, and most probably they will even write here to fire back accusations, but it seems to be very obvious that these who you define as journalists (I call them reporters, because a journalist does his research) simply act to the script written for them by the foreign-based Maltese guru (who comes to visit every now and then especially in polling and public exposure them) ... and apart from that, since they all earn their living due to the things they share in common, they will never risk biting the arm that feeds them !!

In practice, we can be jealous for their financial income and public exposure .... but they can envy our freedom of being to write what WE think and not what we are told !
effie carbonaro (on 20/3/08)
dear albert i have been writing during tthe election on a number of articles complaining that certain newspaper hide certain news or do not publish articles that harm the present goverment but they publish everthing that come in there way to ridicule sant not the mlp but sant.he was attacked personally by readers,in house journalists and cartoonists but when it cames to allegations they publish it in a way that you think it is only mudslinging.and then the editor of the times cames to tell us that alfred sant was treated with dignity.speaking of dignity lets hope you have the DIGNITY to publish these letter.
Alex Ellul (on 20/3/08)
Maybe, we can replace our police force, magistrates , judges and the judicial system by a collective of Maltese jounalists who would take up the role of the investigator, accuser and judge. We may also have a public lynching or pillory as proof of our political and social maturity.

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