The media upholds very crafty ways on how to mould the masses to side with one narrative.
We start with a very simple observation about the big, bold title pointing at the landlord, while a very small headline in small print focuses on the shortcomings of the tenant. An example of a balanced title would have been “Court fines landlord for barging into apartment while tenant is being investigated for perjury.”
The media is very skilled in directing the narrative and propaganda, you see.
If we go to the contents of the article we also learn that the tenant was breaching the contract and was not innocent at all. We learn that landlord Paul Cachia burst into his Swieqi apartment for a reason, and the reason was due to a situation which had been escalating for quite some time, and from the testimony, it was clear that the tenant’s testimony and that of his illegal long time lodger did not ring the bells of truth. Magistrate Frendo Dimech was right to tell them “you two are first-class liars and I’m going to order the police commissioner to investigate you for perjury” “and the penalty for that may even be deportation.”
Shouldn’t Times of Malta have made this deportation a headline and publish a separate article? No, because it doesn’t suit the narrative and the agenda.
Please read the article to get the whole picture.
While this site fully condemns Paul Cachia’s attitude and action, this site also condemns the filming of it by the tenant’s friend and most importantly, its publishing by the media! Does the data protection act still count these days?
While this site fully condemns Paul Cachia’s attitude and action, this site also condemns the tenant’s attitude and actions.
But we have been left with a system which allows for the law to be taken into our own hands. Legally, the landlord could have started an eviction process but only God knows how lengthy the process is, a process which strictly adheres to legal procedures which also gives the tenant the right to dispute the eviction in court. It is a rotten system which leads you to take matters into your hand and when you do, it blames you and drags you to court. “In light of all evidence, the court declared Cachia guilty of unlawfully taking matters into his own hands by entering the flat that was lawfully occupied by the tenant” and he was fined €200. There you go.
This is a justice system created by those who created laws in a scheming way so that they can break them without any consequences. Only the rest face consequences when they break the law.
Yes, both tenant and landlord had shortcomings in this case but the media knows very well how to tap on the emotions of the populace so to make it take sides. In this case, the media had to refuse to publish the video, investigate the case, and then come up with a balanced article.
Not all landlords are mean. Not all tenants are mean. Renting has its good and bad side, just like everything.
But the media, in favour of the cold genocide that is being executed on the Maltese people, prefers to show a Maltese landlord in a bad light, rather than a foreign tenant, who will be deported if police investigation finds him guilty.
Instead of deporting foreign law breakers, Times of Malta is deporting you, the Maltese citizen.