It is simply pointless for PBS programmes manager, Reuben Zammit to provide a list of efforts, consultants and save-my-face bodies as answer to my criticism of the style and language used by many from his newsroom and other programmes.

The short answer to his letter (June 26), responding to my previously expressed criticism, is the old dictum of ‘where’s the beef?’ Because that ‘beef’ is still what I said it was, namely, a system that allows his people to indulge in constant uncensored and uncorrected waffle, padding and repetitions on far too many programmes but, particularly so, news programmes.

Not to mention constantly pitiful abuse of both the Maltese and English languages. The whole set-up reeks of a top-down, and bottom-up, chummy-chummy environment, where nobody seems to have the authority of censoring anyone in some biting manner.