Thursday, 20th March 2008
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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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.
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 !