Calling a spade a spade
Marisa Micallef Leyson (August 28) thinks the PN media should hammer a pro-EU campaign in the style the MLP media have been using for the past decade, a decade in which, strategy and all, the MLP has spent in opposition, bar for two troubled years! She...
Marisa Micallef Leyson (August 28) thinks the PN media should hammer a pro-EU campaign in the style the MLP media have been using for the past decade, a decade in which, strategy and all, the MLP has spent in opposition, bar for two troubled years!
She claims Labour's style of hammering their agenda into people's minds is effective. Even handing out government apartments and jobs to party boys was effective in 1986! It won 8,000 more votes to Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici and left the PN with a dangerously thin majority.
Indeed, the situation could have been even more different had the then Labour administration had more time to dish out handouts. But would she consider this as an 'effective' option to win the referendum?! I hope not.
This country needs leadership in all walks of life. If the majority feel there is something sinister in the way the Labour media report the events of the day, then following their style would be suicidal both for the providers of the information and the country.
Twisting facts and ignoring issues should not be the way our local media communicates with the people. Labour-driven 'journalists' have done it for nearly 16 years with Xandir Malta and then switched to Super 1 when PBS was taken off their hands.
The only way they know how to do media is by hammering propaganda down people's throats and try to make them feel stupid if they are not one of them.
Only days ago we experienced another clear example of this, when international credit rating agency Fitch commented on the Maltese situation.
For once, an international agency quoted Labour's vision of non-EU membership. Fitch stated categorically that Labour's way would harm the country's economy.
Do you think those who follow only Super 1 news got any inkling of that part of the report? Of course not!
Is this the style of reporting the PN media should adopt?
Even though officially biased, the PN media should continue calling a spade a spade.
It should continue to respect those who are not necessarily PN supporters but want to hear the facts with an editorial bias, knowing at the back of their mind that facts remain facts.
It is this concept of respect towards the people that makes the PN different to the MLP. What would be the scope of fighting to join the EU if we wereto sell our soul and all we believe in? After all, we are after improving our standards and lifestyle, are we not?
By becoming a blue version of the Labour media, we would be giving in to what is right and accept Alfred Sant's self-declared way of being prepared to make a pact with the devil and to do anything to win!
Of course I would like to see our people win but not at this expense.