Category: Media Watch
PBS: New puppets, old strings?
Public trust is the rating that should matter most to PBS as a public organisation that uses public funds. Audience following is not necessarily a measure of PBS’ success considering the lack of choice of alternatives in the context within which it operates. PBS can claim to be serving its remit when people stop thinking it is nothing more than a puppet.
The war on Wikileaks: narratives that distract from the truth
The ongoing story related to the release of over a quarter of a million US diplomatic cables is a good example of the workings of the global media, an industry tasked with the formation of public opinion in the world. The picture emerging is consistent – an industry whose primary task is truth is instead [...]
News without truth
News depends on sources, but not every source is necessarily credible. That distinction seems to be missing in ‘news’ being relayed to the public. There’s one particular source that has decided to latch on to a cause (because he can) and then use it to make demands based on irrational arguments that are insulting to [...]
The silence of the lambs
The muffled announcement of PBS’s new CEO, Anton Attard, compounds what is already a problematic situation in terms of freedom of the press in Malta. The post is a significant one, and as such the news related to the person given this role should have got the attention it deserved. Instead, PBS buried the news [...]
Fearless journalism
One of the best investigative journalists of our time explains why Wikileaks is needed in a world where journalism is compromised. John Pilger describes the importance of Wikileaks as a new and fearless form of investigative journalism that threatens both the war-makers and their apologists, notably journalists who are state stenographers. From the New Statesman: [...]
