In-tele-gents

A trip through historical footage – reminding us who we really are and why we think the way we think. Watch with an open mind. We don’t mean anything other than what the video(s) say(s).

Ghax kif jghid Sant Ermonju “past is a history” – were the words of the much mourned Spiridione Sant on one of the infamous pre-election interviews when he even managed to silence Georg Sapiano with his constant ramblings. Spiru has left this island for some time now but we are not deprived of a farcical political situation in any case.

1. Vilification Machines

Last night, the discussion on J’accuse veered on the “vilification machine”. Presumed reds and blues vying for the place of victim of the other’s vilification machine target practice. For our first clip we have unearthed an (unofficial)PN propaganda clip that outlines the labour party’s capability of insulting (tghajjir). Does it remind you of anyone in 2010?

2. Look who’s coming to dinner

If Ray Bugeja gets invited to dinner by Magistrate Scerri Herrera then he loses all concept of impartiality. If Lou Bondi is invited to dinner he still remains the sans pareil of investigative journalism and can go ahead with a gutless programme picking and mixing the order of the day. But what is it with politicians (and Bondiplus) when it comes to being invited to dinner? Follow this exchange on Bondi+ and then tell me – does Gonzi thinking Sant is a hypocrite mean that Gonzi thinks that if you are seen with someone at dinner then you are somehow implicated? Or is it just the pathos of the moment that leads him to the inevitable conclusion?

3. It goes back… far back

Here’s Dom before he opened Malta’s broadcasting networks to the great age of pluralism. It’s a young(ish) Mintoff complaining about the PN use of broadcasting between 1969 and 1971. Oh how the wheel turned, and turned. Talk about wheels within wheels.

4. V for Vendetta

Ironic isn’t it. All this provoked by Plategate – a vendetta that has snowballed out of the hands (and control) of its very initiators.What do you think about Silent Obedient Consent? Bite me.

5. And finally Spiru

At this rate given the kind of broadcasting mess we have today – and the principles underlying it – don’t you just wish Spiru was still with us?