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Maria Bugeja talks of sleaze

Ms Maria Bugeja of the Cancer Foundation has started a campaign to reveal what she alleges is a case of sleaze journalism by a Maltese journalist.

In her latest move she has spoken to the EU Ambassador Mr Gallimore, based in Malta, about what she calls is a breach of journalistic ethics, which could have repercussions on the international level.

Ms Bugeja has apparently suffered from a credibility crunch after a media battle she had to endure because of some allegations on the running of her cancer foundation.

Ms Bugeja, who has lost much support among the medical profession, the local press and the general public, also informed Mr Gallimore that the editor of The Times, Mr Aquilina and journalist Mr Natalino Fenech should have resigned from their jobs, as a result of the whole episode.

There is little or nothing Mr Gallimore can do to address Ms Bugeja’s concerns, more so when UK national Mr Gallimore is reminded of the ruthlessness of some British newspapers.