https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28247 2026-04-22T06:43:16Z 2026-04-22T06:43:16Z Zammit Dimech, Francis https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28615 2018-04-03T01:22:03Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Dossier : samples of court judgements connected with broadcasting issues over the past three years Authors: Zammit Dimech, Francis Abstract: Additional information included for the reader's benefit at the end of the conference proceedings. Compiled by Francis Zammit Dimech. Description: Publication of a conference held at AZAD Centre, Sliema, on February 17, 1978.

1978-01-01T00:00:00Z Vassallo, Joseph G. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28614 2018-04-03T01:21:59Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The readership and the audience Authors: Vassallo, Joseph G. Abstract: Any discussion on the local communications media ought to take into consideration local characteristics governing the relationships between communicators and communicants. Those considerations are bound to colour any general conclusions on the Maltese environment. In this paper, I will advance certain general observations peculiar to Malta and Gozo, in the hope that these will help towards a better understanding of the general topic under discussion at this seminar. Description: Publication of a conference held at AZAD Centre, Sliema, on February 17, 1978.

1978-01-01T00:00:00Z Serracino Inglott, Peter https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28602 2024-12-16T09:13:57Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The diffusion of information in Malta Authors: Serracino Inglott, Peter Abstract: All that I can offer on the subject are some personal observations which may, perhaps, serve either just as an occasion for comparison with the personal observations of others or, at most, as a hypothesis which it might be possible to test by more objective methods of checking its validity. The first proposition is that local news in Malta still spreads by word of mouth faster than through the media. The second proposition is that, although the mass-media in Malta have not got much of a newsgiving function, they have another quite specific function with regard to the news. The third proposition is that the interpretation of the news takes place once again in another phase of oral exchanges. Description: Publication of a conference held at AZAD Centre, Sliema, on February 17, 1978.

1978-01-01T00:00:00Z Frendo, Henry https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28349 2018-03-28T01:28:11Z 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Milestones in the development of mass communications in Malta Authors: Frendo, Henry Abstract: Among the new States, Malta has one of the longest, almost uninterrupted traditions of press freedom and, for her size, is lucky to have had a variety of newspaper opinion. It was two well-known British liberals, John Austin and George Cornwall Lewis, who responding to appeals by the Maltese leader Giorgio Mitrovich, strongly recommended the grant of press freedom to the colony. That was in 1838, when the first papers and periodicals began to be published. Before that time we can hardly say that there was a journalistic tradition at all. The Order of st. John had a printing press in the eighteenth century, but this was mainly for official works. Besides, censorship always hung over Malta's head: in the mid-seventeenth century the Grand Master had opted to close a printing press instead of having to put up with interference from the Pope and Inquisitor who insisted on nihil obstat rights in any printed matter associated with religion or the church. During the brief period of French rule over Malta, from 1798 to 1800, a vaguely Bonapartist paper, Le Journal de Malte, was published; but again this was an official gazette rather than a newspaper. It was all 'liberty, equality and fraternity'; and woe to anybody who disagreed. The same style of paper, a government gazette, continued to be published in the first decades of British rule, first in Italian only, and subsequently in Italian and English until in the early twentieth century Maltese too made an appearance in it. Apart from this, in the period before 1838, very few people managed to get anything controversial printed. One was an Italian refugee; the others were Protestant missionaries. Otherwise the only way to get printed matter distributed in Malta was to have it printed in Italy or elsewhere outside the Island, at least until 1839. Description: Publication of a conference held at AZAD Centre, Sliema, on February 17, 1978.

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