The Media Fire

Richard Marlowe is back at Shackled Hearts. In this piece he discusses media and politics in Malta:

You would have thought that after years and years of being quietly connected to the Maltese islands I would have understood the workings of my own industry there - the media. But dear reader, you are so very, very wrong! Whist never actually never having had any role or part to play personally in any aspect of the Malta media scene I have viewed quietly from behind my newspaper in little street cafes, in my favourite little bars, in the seclusion of my hotel and rented apartment rooms and through one or two well meaning poor souls who have offered their services in an advisory capacity over the past couple of decades...

The most loved bedfellow of any politician is the media machine. To have that machine permanently available and on tap at the slightest beck and call must be sheer heaven. For the consumer, my beloved “ordinary folk” it must be boredom made in hell where the flames rage on and on..