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Daphne Caruana Galizia
Personal blog · daphnecaruanagalizia.compoliticswriting
Daphne Caruana Galizia's personal blog at daphnecaruanagalizia.com covers politics and writing. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daphne Caruana Galizia's blog as a source on Maltese politics and tax havens, and debate what the blog shows about her as a journalist.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-16
What Hacker News says?
Maltese person here who has been following this journalist for a long time. The international reporting of this omits a lot of important information. It is far from certain that her assassination had a political motive. While I admired her for uncovering cases of corruption, she also had a very nasty streak, resorting to things like publishing revenge porn [1][2] and mocking women for the way the dressed [3]. A reve…
Comment linking /2016/09/hot-new-style-wrought-iron-patterns/
on “Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens”This sounds to me like a plausible motive: https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170906/local/nd... https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/the-gaming-activiti... Background: One of Malta's biggest industries is online "gaming". It's basically virtual poker and other virtual gambling games. It's a huge money maker and has attracted lots of foreign EU nationals to work in the small nation's IT sector.
Comment linking /2015/07/the-gaming-activities-are-legal-but-they-are-used-for-laundering/
on “Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens”Maltese person here who has been following this journalist for a long time. The international reporting of this omits a lot of important information. It is far from certain that her assassination had a political motive. While I admired her for uncovering cases of corruption, she also had a very nasty streak, resorting to things like publishing revenge porn [1][2] and mocking women for the way the dressed [3]. A reve…
Comment linking /2016/09/hot-new-style-wrought-iron-patterns/
on “Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist”Her blog was popular. I read it too. Not because I agreed with her. Go read the blog, yourself to see what kind of person she was. Most people hated her because she was mean and her pastime, when not professionally attacking politicians on the other side of the aisle, was to dig up dirt on their spouses and acquaintances and attacking them on a personal level. [5] For example of the kind of shit that she would engag…
Comment linking /2015/09/bottom-of-the-barrel-the-labour-mayor-of-hal-qormi/
on “Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist”You can make up your mind of what kind of person she was by reading her blog: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/ She was hated by many, both because she was very biased (think more Breitbart than Fox News) and also because she had no reservations about punching below the belt. It is hard to write this without sounding biased, but I never thought of her as a good person nor as a good journalist. The perpetrator could…
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on “Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist”This assassination was covered in the US. However, I don't understand the coverage either here or in Europe and am hoping that a local Maltese reader might be able to help out. In all the coverage, she's praised to the skies as a tough investigative journalist who uncompromisingly challenged authorities and followed through on corruption. But then you go to her blog, which was her primary reporting outlet, and it's…
on “Taxation – Explaining What a Double Irish Sandwich Is”>anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia I'm not really sure if "anti-corruption journalist" accurately describes her work: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/09/hot-new-style-wroug... https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/09/bottom-of-the-barre... https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/oh-look-whos-here-m... https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/
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on “Why are the Maltese so competitive?”