Charlie Charters seems to think that his praise for the Coalition government on social media entitles him to special treatment and certainly not to have his phone seized again by the police after he won his court case against FICAC.
Grubsheet doesn’t know enough to make any credible pronouncement on the case. But our local “Homer in a Muumuu” is in la-la land if he thinks his services to the government are going to help him.
Nor is he likely to benefit in the court of public opinion from a statement that reeks of self-entitlement and self-delusion:
Woo-hoo! So does this mean that Charlie is going to break ranks with his gaggle of fellow government worshipers and break ranks with the Coalition? Old Rolex Rambo will be quaking in his sandals.
Charlie describes himself as a “citizen journalist”. But what journalist goes to “great pains to give credit” to any government in the expectation of special treatment when they fall foul of the law?
With his international media experience, Charlie should be the first to understand that the executive – the government – normally has no say in what happens in the criminal justice system. Or is this Charlie telling us that in Fiji, things are different? Because this very much suggests that Charlie believes the government can put an end to his misery. And we thought they were independent. Silly us.
Poor Charlie. The Fiji Times accompanies its website coverage of his statement with multiple ads for “losing a hanging belly”. Surely these ads could have been placed somewhere else? Or is some wag at the FT deliberately trawling for sniggers?
With this statement, Charlie is clearly looking for sympathy. Alas, as the renowned British theatre critic, Ken Tynan, once said: “It’s in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary somewhere between sh*t and syphilis”.
In other words, you won’t get any here.
Media freedom, my arse.
(Refer to previous article)
Surely good olé Charlie doesn’t believe the myth of media freedom in Fiji? Hasn’t he seen how Lynda Tabuya, and before her, Baiman Prasad and Manoa Kamikamica, were buying the media off with taxpayer money?
The dickheads, sorry, self styled swinging dicks of Fiji media, like Fred Wesley, Vijay Narayan and Stanley Simpson, are eating out of this government’s hands, while Lynda struts and sashays in and out of their newsrooms, just to remind them of who is boss. All this is unashamedly covered in the news media splashed across social media for all of Fiji to witness, such is the pathetic lack of self-awareness in our media.
Even for laymen like us it’s obvious that the Fiji media are as corrupt as the Fiji political establishment. They are in bed together. Not to mention the pathetic legal establishment, especially Munro Leys and the Fiji Law Society, as established convincingly in this GrubSheet blog.
We are now well aware of what a bastard Ritchie Richard Naidu is, with his firm profiting generously from his appointment as chairperson of the fiscal review committee. This is the lowdown dog who engineered the 15% VAT for ordinary people of Fiji to fund the 7 year tax holiday for his billionaire clients who own Fiji Water. All under the auspices of the Finance Minister at the time, badhia, Baiman Prasad, Fiji’s most famous eunuch, who has established beyond doubt that his National Federation Party stands for the elites.
While we sympathize with Charlie to a certain extent, he should stop propagating the myth of media freedom, and see the media for what it is – dumb, corrupt, ineffective and in bed with the political and corporate establishment.
Lmao.
(Eds explanatory note: Internet slang for “Laughing my arse off”)
Yes, of course media freedom is only an issue when it impacts me, myself & I.
Media freedom has limitations.
I am wondering why Charters is skidding in the same shit that he ingested.
Before it was on his legs and now it is all over his face and more sticky.
In a now free Fiji, back stabbing, liumuri, stupidity, third rate politics, sub standards and the like are now the national sport. And proudly so.
The pride in being a bunch of donkeys is unprecedented and a national pastime. They are not even embarrassed about being proud to be stupid. It is now an ingrained part of the tradition and culture of the country. The more stupid you are, the more suitable you are to hold certain positions.
This is their country after all and they do things their way. Just ask the GCC.
One thing is clear, they are totally unaware that they are dickheads.