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editorial
Picking on Paul Muscat
Let us for one minute stop to ponder. Here we have it, Paul Muscat
is being picked on by the Nationalist press for having carried out
works without following the proper procedures.
Paul Muscat, as everyone knows, is loved in Bormla by all Labourites
and is a hard working mayor, but he is best remembered for his role
as the central figure in the Lino Spiteri/Alfred Sant leadership
vote rigging allegations.
Some kilometres away from Bormla in a Nationalist stronghold - Mosta
that is - a deficit running into hundreds of thousands was hushed
and ignored.
But because Paul Muscat is the Paul Muscat of yesteryear, the media
chose to pick on the Cottonera mayor, who has been shunned by his
party for embarrassing the leader and selected by the PN media for
so called machiavellian actions.
Indeed, on the latter subject we are rather unsure whether it makes
sense to rubbish Muscat's persona in such a way.
We would have expected similar attention for the disgraceful management
at the Mosta local council or shall we say some other Nationalist
dominated councils.
The judiciary is not beyond reproach
The judiciary, it seems, is beyond criticism. But we have to say
that a cursory look at some of the sentences reveals a non-academic
approach to certain topics.
This observation is not without reason, and we refer here to the
fines meted out for certain actions followed through the corridors
of our court.
We must analyse these sentences and pass judgement, we should not
continue to believe that this is not justifiable or expected from
the analytical media.
This is our strong conviction and we turn to our readers to support
us in this.
The mercenaries in the press
There is a regular columnist who paints black clouds in her weekly
column and throws molten rock at what she calls mercenaries in the
press. As if there is a difference between a warped mind and a sold
out mind. But comfortably the writer avoids scolding those people
who are myopic, paranoid or worse still schizoid in their writings.
And we have good reason to believe that this is no understatement.
Let us make this make this very clear. The author of this leader
has his agendas, professional commitments and likes and dislikes,
but with a difference – they are consistent.
We stand for what we believe in: a Malta in Europe, a work ethic,
politicians who are good managers and have vision, the introduction
of ‘reasonable' divorce, environmental conservation and accountability.
That means that we form allegiances out of parallelism and we form
a convergence but like those good tabloids and broad sheets we may
decide to support other leaders if the goal posts change.
This is no comparison to the inconsistent and self-centred journalism
that is deeply rooted with some of our competitors.
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