It has now been 8 months since the brutal
assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia (DCG). Civil societies, rightly so, are
still demanding that the persons who commissioned the killing are brought to
justice. They also demand the resignation of several people who hold office or
who passed insensitive comments in the months that followed, but since when is
resignation part of Maltese culture?
According to Wikipedia, Daphne “was
a Maltese journalist, writer, and anti-corruption activist, who reported
on political events in Malta. In particular, she focused on investigative
reporting into government corruption, nepotism, patronage, allegations of money
laundering”.
“Daphne
Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist and anti-corruption
activist who was investigating Maltese government links to money laundering and
tax evasion.” (Euronews)
What people seem to forget in 2018, or
simply do not know (especially if foreign news agencies, although that would
indicate lack of research) is that DCG started blogging in 2008 under a
Nationalist Party (PN) administration. However, between 2008 and 2013 Daphne
didn’t write about government corruption or nepotism, although they were
rampant, even if not to the extent they are today.
Bar a few exceptions, she simply ridiculed
the opposition party (PL) and its affiliates, even though the opposition has
the constitutional obligation of holding the government to account.
In February 2010 she made fun of Labour
Party affiliates’ punctuation: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/labours-business-forum-eats-shoots-and-leaves/
In August 2011 she wrote about Labour Party
supporters being chavs: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/08/vote-labour-to-get-to-go-to-more-bbqs-hdejn-il-pool-narakhom/
In May 2012 (less than a year before the 2013
general election), she continued attacking the government fearing the
opposition like a troll: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/i-thought-only-beautiful-young-people-were-meant-to-sit-behind-joseph/
In November 2012 (a couple of months before
the general election), she was getting panicky: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/11/like-joseph-and-win-an-ipad-like-maltastar-if-you-like-joseph/
You might think that a couple of articles ridiculing the Opposition were carefully selected. If you want to see for yourself, check
out the multitude of posts in of November 2012: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/page/1042/.
No, no filter was applied to show only the posts criticising the Opposition.
That was the only thing she wrote about. She certainly might have had a
nightmare or two about what would come, as it was quite clear that Labour would
win the election.
Excuse my language, but how the fuck can
you describe someone who writes that bullshit and trolls the internet an
investigative journalist? Any news outlet, I repeat, any news outlet, who refers to her as an investigative
journalist has the credibility of a dictator in central Africa. Just because it
seems to be cool to call Daphne Caruana Galizia an investigative journalist
does not make her an investigative journalist, just as calling illegal
immigrants refugees, migrants or asylum seekers doesn’t make them the latter.
She insulted hundreds of people. I think Glenn Bedingfield tried to compile the list and I doubt he managed to complete it.
ReplyDeleteDaphne Caruana Galizia was a vile blogger where she attacked all those who doesn't share her views especially the they happens to be labor oriented people. The hate she had in her heart for labor was enormous. She insulted even the children of those who happen to be in her aim. She even insulted the memory of the late President Guido DeMarco and his family. And you call this woman the glorified blogger?
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