Victor Pisani, Sta Luċija
Pathetic standards?
Xarabank, March 12. Peppi Azzopardi opens the programme in his typical exasperated style and asks the panel why today's children are disobedient, undisciplined, arrogant, even untouchable. A modern-times phenomenon indeed. What are the real causes, he asks over and over again. Who's at fault? Who's setting the bad example?
Short interval. A clip features a prison inmate being interviewed in hospital. It is announced that the Xarabank crew were not granted permission to film in hospital but nevertheless they filmed the patient clandestinely. Pathetic.
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J. Schembri
Mar 18th 2010, 19:09
Well one does not need to go far to see who is part of the fault , in Xarabank I saw ten year old children asking rude questions to the then new Bishop of Gozo. On Xarabank nearly everyone is on first name basis , and everyone has a right for an opinion on anything :Cetta ta' Lahlah opinion on child behaviour is at par with a psychiatrist's opinion.
Chris Reiff
Mar 18th 2010, 15:33
"Who's at fault? Who's setting the bad example?"
It's the video games!! They kill the child's future!
I did not watch Xarabank, but I do hope nobody said the above.
Maria Vella
Mar 18th 2010, 14:40
I used to be one of those hundreds of thousands who follow Xarabank every Friday. Nowadys I am no longer one of the audience. The programme has been running for far too long and sometimes it has become a show case of the lowest level of society. People in the audience very often are clearly told by some one else what to say, this is evident from the way they try to hiccup the words with no sense at all. Joe (now Peppi) never gives time to any one to finish a point, There are many personal undercurrents in this programme. Who cares about the private life of whoever represents Malta in the blessed Eurosong? What is there to discuss about a singer who has made a name for himself up in Scandinavia? Peppi your programme needs a revamp if you want to get back to the top of the list of viewership
K. Anastasi
Mar 18th 2010, 14:13
@ Joe Scerri
Couldn't have said it better.
PS Xarabank is well past it's sell by date as a programme, Peppi should come up with some fresh idea, instead of churning out the same old format week after week.
Malcolm Fenech
Mar 18th 2010, 12:47
'why today's children are disobedient, undisciplined, arrogant, even untouchable'
Because of bad parenting that's why!
joe scerri
Mar 18th 2010, 10:25
Well if our children imitate the adults that appear on xarabank or any other discussion program for that matter they can defintiely learn how to be "undisciplined, arrogant, even untouchable"