It is the role of the press to ask uncomfortable questions Journalism is there to mediate between a public that cannot question the people in authority, and those calling the shots 7 March 2021, 3:00pm A provocative question by MaltaToday, to the Superintendent for Public Health this week, raised hackles on social media. It was intended at getting Charmaine Gauci to respond to the feeling out on the street – as well as the informed opinions of the entirety of Malta’s main medical and specialist colleges – that the science that informs the public health response to COVID-19 has been over...