The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Economist 's 1843 magazine's second most popular image of 2018: The world isn't stupid, as most of Malta would like to believe it is. When you're cut off from the situation and are seeing it from outside the boundaries of the Maltese shores, you are truly able to see how completely mad the situation in Malta is.  It is true that it is easy to fall into the trap of doubting ourselves back here, where we are submerged in the madness. But we mustn't ever do that, because that is exactly what will lead us ' to leap on the bandwagon with the cry that if you can’t beat them, then you might as well join them'. I quote here from the article that has supplied the most strength and kept everything in the sharpest focus: my aunt's ' Right and wrong are not a popularity contest '. I think I should write here some words she wrote in that article that I quote time and time again:  There is something else I should say before I go: when people...

Yesterday, something excellent happened. Speak held its first event at university. Speak is a student organisation, a collaboration between three university student media organisations: Insite Malta, The Third Eye and The Yuppie. The idea behind it is to create an open space that encourages discussion and healthy debate about important issues amongst the student body. Caroline Muscat from The Shift News was their guest yesterday. The event took the form of a discussion about media in Malta and youth’s participation, and this was what made it special and so good. Ms Muscat began by giving a bit of background information about The Shift and its mission. The Shift has it all in its name – it is a shift away from political party owned media, an independent pen that aims to hold power to account. Journalism is in a symbiotic relationship with society. It is there to protect it, warn it and inform it. Without it, we wouldn’t know what is going on around us, not only on a loc...