Isn’t that what Mrs Bucket Malta has been doing for years?

Daphne Caruana Galizia wrote: “How can the Times of Malta and The Sunday Times be expected to report freely about the EU Presidency, and how can their readers be certain that what they are reading is not public relations puff pieces, when their owning company is handling the public relations for the EU Presidency against payment of €797,000?”

Mrs Bucket Malta has been doing this for years.

By the same token how can we be sure that the Independent is not?