This week the article takes the form of an open reply to Father Borg’s efforts to contribute to the debate on the media, ethics and the private lives of saints and sinners in 21st century Malta. Dear Fr Borg, in this week’s post on The Times (“On guilded silence and beyond”), you ask...

Prompted by Pots we look at two recent US opinions on the judiciary and facebook.*** J’accuser “Pots” has kindly drawn our attention to two cases (or rather Opinions) in the US last year where judicial advisory committees were asked about the participation of judges in social...

Fr Joe Borg, often sighted (yes, not cited, sighted as in seen) as an expert witness on media matters in court, has been busy asking questions about how the mainstream media is tackling “Plate-gate“. We add some of our own. In his blog post on the Times, Borg asks a few questions...

In defence of what has been perceived as J’accuse’s inertia on the recent scandalous business in the media and on the net. We are not blind. We have not been so long deprived from access to the net as to not know what is going on. We are not surprised and if we may paraphrase the...

Elsewhere in the blogging world, a blogger takes pride of the fact that other columnists “waited until Noel Arrigo’s trial was concluded to laugh in print about his confessors and aborted trips to Lourdes, leaving me to crack jokes alone (not that I mind, of course)”. The...