DAPHNE
CARUANA GALİZİA'S MURDER İN MALTA
'Shocked'
By Daphne Caruana Galizia's Murder
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said
he was "flabbergasted" when he heard Daphne Caruana Galizia was
killed in a car bomb.
The 53-year-old journalist died in
an explosion shortly after she left her home in Bidnija, near Mosta, on Monday.
She was known for her blog
accusing top politicians of corruption.
Her son, Matthew, has denounced
what he called the country's "mafia state". 18
Oct 2017
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This week we have had a brutal
reminder of what the mainstream media does – and why we need it. On Monday
Malta’s most prominent investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered when the car she was driving
was blown sky high, scattering her body parts across a field.
She has been widely described as a
blogger, and she did indeed break some of her biggest stories that way.
But she was also a columnist for
the Malta Independent and its Sunday sister title (her last column appeared on Sunday,
opposing the legalisation of cannabis). She was fiercely independent, even a
maverick. But she was also part of the mainstream media. Indeed, her most
important story, the Panama Papers and its Maltese
dimension, came about through the combined heft of a network of mainstream news
organisations, including the Guardian.
Her murder – motivated, of course, not by some
generalised opposition to the media but by the apparent desire of criminals to
silence a reporter whose revelations threatened their interests – is a timely
and unwanted reminder of the risks journalists like Caruana Galizia take to do
their job. As the Guardian notes in its editorial on the killing, the Maltese
reporter is the 10th journalist to die this year. The New York Times rightly records that journalists have been
jailed in Turkey, and murdered in Russia, India and the Philippines. In the US
they are daily denounced as purveyors of “fake news.”
But if Caruana Galizia’s death is
a reminder of the risks such reporters take, her life is a reminder of the
value of their work. She performed an extraordinary service, ferreting out
evidence that Malta had become an island mafia
state, its elite riddled with corruption, money-laundering, kickbacks and gang
violence.
Her counterparts provide an equally essential service
in their own societies. Think, for example, of the reporting of David Fahrenthold
of the Washington Post who has been forensically combing his way through the
Trump finances. It was Fahrenthold who established that when the president says
he’s given money to charity, it’s best not to take his word for it.
Fahrenthold is part of the reviled mainstream media,
just as Caruana Galizia was. That’s worth remembering next time an activist
site of the far right or far left – dishing out stories that are unchecked, unsourced and, in a word,
fake – slams the MSM. As Caruana Galizia’s bereaved son,
Matthew, put it this week: “This is what happens
when the institutions of the state are left incapacitated: the last person left
standing is often a journalist.”
Jonathan Freedland is a
Guardian columnist
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ÜNLÜ KADIN GAZETECİYE BOMBALI SUİKAST
Malta’da,
Araştırma Haber Ve Yazılarıyla Bilinen Gazeteci Daphne Caruana Galizia,
Arabasına Yerleştirilen Bombanın Patlamasıyla Yaşamını Yitirdi.
Times Of Malta’nın, "sözünü esirgemeyen araştırmacı
gazeteci" diye tanımladığı Daphne Caruana Galizia, blogunda son yazısını
yayınladıktan kısa süre sonra arabasına binerek kent dışına çıktı.
Cansız Bedeni Arabasının 15-20 Metre Uzağında Bulundu
Gazetecinin arabasına yerleştirildiği tahmin edilen bombanın bir
süre sonra patladığı ve arabanın yanmaya başladığı belirtilen polis
açıklamasına göre, patlama etkisiyle fırlayan Daphne Caruana Galizia’nın cansız
bedeni, arabasının 15-20 metre uzağında bulundu. 16
Ekim 2017
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