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Muzzling the experts The news of Kenneth Grech’s reinstatement with the COVID team “in three or four weeks” seems positive. The subtext that “government is reluctant to provide details on timelines” is where the real message lies. Read: maybe never. If the government was serious about undoing yet another faux pas, it would be ‘three or four minutes’. This has all the air of a voice of dissent being summarily swept aside by an increasingly dictatorial attitude. This, at a time when...

Thursday 21 January 2021 - 9:02am JOHANNESBURG - Striking SABC employees are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to save their jobs. Protesters drove to the Union buildings on Wednesday to hand over a memorandum. The public broadcaster is planning to retrench hundreds of workers by the end of February.

iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Jan 18, 2021 11:34am Several tech companies are seeking government contracts in the areas of digital transformation, data storage, and IT products and services. As consultations continue in advance of the 2021 budget, which is expected to be released in the coming months, several businesses are looking for funding for taxation, financial-reporting, and financial-literacy projects. According to a recent filing, the Chartered Professional Accountants ...

The party-owned broadcasting media It’s about time the PN starts adopting a social media strategy to balance that of the Labour party Michael Falzon 19 January 2021, 7:53am The situation in Malta with political parties owning their own broadcasting media – radio and television stations – is probably unique in liberal democracies all over the world. The reason why this is so is simply the result of the reaction to the abuse of public broadcasting ever since the Mintoff regime nationalised...

); RTÉ says it has no plans to scrap The Angelus as it aims to strike a balance on diversity of views An online petition started this week calling for RTÉ to scrap broadcasting the Angelus. By Sean Murray Sunday 17 Jan 2021, 7:30 AM Jan 17th 2021, 7:30 AM 26,817 Views 172 Comments Image: Shutterstock/Its Ymin Image: Shutterstock/Its Ymin RT...

Comedian Alison Spittle joins calls for the Angelus to be banned from RTE following the Mother and Baby Homes report The demand follows the details disclosed in the Mother and Baby Homes report Alison Spittle Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourP...

Broadcasting Minister Carmelo Abela adopted a cautious stance when asked about an upcoming court case on whether political propaganda shown on party media stations breaches the Constitution.  “I shouldn’t comment about this because it’s in court now, so we should let the courts decide,” Abela told Lovin Malta this morning. “What I can say is that I never mind improving laws when they need to be improved. I’m not going to comment about specific articles [in the Broadcasting Act] tha...

Political party stations One and Net have vowed to fight a court battle against those they accuse of wanting to shut them down. The two outlets were the result of media pluralism and were carrying out a duty towards their viewers, they argued. The two stations were contacted for reactions after Lovin Malta gave notice that it intends to start constitutional proceedings against the state attorney, arguing that a section of the Broadcasting Act on political party stations breaches the spirit of t...

We Asked These Nine Questions About Party-Owned TV Stations… Here’s How Malta Answered Share: Political party TV stations have dominated Malta’s media landscape for decades, but debate over their future has intensified in recent months. During the past weeks, Lovin Malta carried out an online survey about party media among its readers, which received 1,371 responses. And while this exercise was not a scientific one, its results nevertheless make for interesting reading. Here’s what we ...

In the notice, lawyers Matthew Cutajar and Eve Borg Costanzi argue that the Broadcasting Act allows the two politically-owned stations to be biased in presenting facts as long as they balance each other out. This, they say, goes against the constitution, the supreme law of the land, which says broadcast media should be impartial in presenting facts. Bankrupt media companies totally dependent on big business donations to stay afloat The lawyers said the application to strike out this section of ...