Political "incest"

Article from MaltaStar.com.

Incest in itself is one of the most heinous of crimes but political 'incest' has become almost just as bad...particularly in Malta.

This can be evidenced daily in the local media, particularly state owned broadcasting where the perpetrators are even worse, invariably funded as they are by taxpayers' money.

We have former PN media gurus running prime time discussion programmes on TVM. We have government agencies and corporations hiring these same media gurus' company/companies to organise 'major' events in which they are meant to provide the right distractions. As part of the game to keep us back from realising that rather than living on BREAD & CIRCUS Malta and Gozo are currently having to make do with too much circus and too little bread.

We then have people migrating from the PN itself to certain independent media only to turn up again under the guise of managing directors or CEOs of PR companies that end up gobbling up the larger slices of cake in the PR and communications areas ...once again funded by each one of us...the ordinary taxpayer.

Being the former Communications Officer of a Cabinet Minister and a former Radio 101 staffer can almost guranatee you a safe seat in TVM's newsroom - or to be more diplomatic, give you a head start - while more than just a rumour has it that a person heavily engaged in the PN's last general election campaign is currently being actively considered for the post of PBS CEO.

While I can well understand that political tv and radio stations have their own agenda to push forward, one cannot accept the same argument when it comes to state broadcasting. The worst aspect of it all, is that the 'brains' behind state broadcasting make it so obvious that they too have their own political agenda. If one can really attribute it to them rather than to their minders, gatekeepers and firefighters.

No wonder the Minister concerned and the Cabinet of which the said Minister forms part of never took up the PL's offer for a root and branch reform in our broadcasting structures.

Some people try to get away with it without succeeding by trying to be too clever by half. Only to end up giving the game away when the going gets tough and they are left will hardly any option but to rev up their political machine.

Others less gifted intellectually, might try to do the same, in spite of posing as editors in chief of certain independent newspapers. They patently work so hand in glove with the puppet masters at Castille. They not only do serve as echo chambers of government spin doctors, but thanks to their own planted articles and spinning they often end up giving us a foretaste of what eventually ends up centre stage in the PN's official media. To cite examples would merely serve
to give undeserved publicity to such people whose main area of expertise is political prejudice and mediocrity.

What many do not know is that in some instances these people are not only triggered by their political leanings. But even worse, by their personal ambition and yearning - which I can confirm - to eventually make it to the OPM as part of the PM's team of communications gurus.

In spite of the overall mediocrity of Gonzi's media control freaks, I am still convinced that such editors in chief are destined to remain wannabe communications officers ...without any 'sporting' chance of ever making it to Castille...except for a drink or 'briefing.'

I am quite sure that the readers and followers of this on line newspaper do not need any guidance to sort out the list of characters I have in mind as well as the company they keep.

When Wall Street came tumbling down we had read all about banks that were too big to fail. In this case we are talking of people who are too small minded to succeed on their own limited merits.

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