It’s interesting how on the day I put in context DCG’s mid-week comments on “fish-pondism”, the Times gives us a particular example of their attempts at creating their own fish-pond news. I don’t know why they bothered with an article entitled “Dalli speaks...

If you’ve tuned in to this blog on Saturday morning (27/11) between 9 and 10 am then you would do well to turn on, tune in and cop out. J’accuse goes live on Andrew Azzopardi’s talk show on Radju Malta at this very instant. Together with other guest speakers Alex Grech and...

More baffling info from the newsdesks. In case the junkies and addicts of this world were not up to scratch on the latest Drug Price Index, MaltaToday gallantly informed its readers that the street price of cocaine has gone down. To be honest I’d be worried if they knew of any other...

In times of recession it is inevitable that the issue of wages and salaries bounce to the forefront of the news. Whether it is the Italian Footballer’s Association and its negotiations for a collective contract (a uniform style contract) or whether it is politicians and their...

There are days when I miss my hometown. This would not be one of them. spread the word:TweetEmailPrintMoreLike this:Like...

The gaps between macro-economics, micro-economics and home economics are rarely bridged in your average person’s daily thinking. Given the worry about his wages, his electricity bill, his cable football subscription and the extra little entertainment money on the one hand and the Irish...

This is a tale of two cousins. One is a self-professed journalist who has a time slot on national television the other is a thatcherite minister in the Maltese government. J’accuse does not normally take to the “pink” style references of familial links and the like but this...

Take a quick tour of the written and spoken media on the Maltese islands and you notice that such linguistic delicacies as “dutchboard” and “spartan plug” (dashboard and sparking plug) are not exclusive to the stereotypical “hamallu” that first springs to...

Prime Minister Gonzi’s letter to the Times is a rarity by local political terms. It takes quite a provocation for a PM to put pen to paper and express his thoughts in a letters page on one of the local rags. Foreign leaders are wont to this kind of behaviour although more often than not...

More confused reporting. The Times. Again. This time they report Pulse – a student organisation. I am left wondering whether Pulse got partially quoted or whether Pulse are plain stupid. The subject matter is a very specific ATP strike – a transport strike. The ATP chose to strike...

Who’s who? Here’s a comparative set of pics. One of Joseph Muscat from therealbudget.com and one of Malta’s great tenor Joseph Calleja. Who’s been a naughty photoshopper now? spread the word:TweetEmailPrintMoreLike this:Like Loading...

You’ve got to love it. I hope the consumers love it. It’s the Independent (UK)’s new offshoot paper called simply “i”. Launched today and costing just 20p per copy it is aimed at what the newspaper is calling “time-poor” people. The trademark of the...