I am simply mystified. We have innumerable public media stations, yet not one of them deems it fit to broadcast ‘public service clips’ that should hopefully help to educate the Maltese.

I do not mean teaching the Maltese the way to hold a fork and knife. I am asking why we do not have a series of clips educating us, for example, on how to drive properly.

Letters to the editor appear with constant frequency debasing our poor driving standards. Yet, no one utilises these perfectly poised audio and video mediums, beamed direct into our homes, to help raise this standard.

I appreciate that media houses have to make money, especially through advertising. However, I am equally sure that if they all put their collective heads together, they should find space to carry educational slots that would hopefully raise driving standards in Malta.

PBS, which is supposed to have a ‘public service obligation’, should and must lead the way here.

Why not have this, rather than programmes featuring silly-talking and self-appointed so-called DJs who make stupid comments?

Equally important, why don’t we carry out campaigns to help keep Malta clean?

We once had the character of Xummiemu who was making inroads into the psyche of litter bugs. This character – painstakingly built over the years – is now just a distant memory. Why has he been allowed to die or at least pensioned off?

Why don’t we highlight the ill-effects of cigarettes or warnings against so-called soft drugs enticing our youths?

It is beyond comprehension why similar education slots are not constantly beamed into households to raise awareness.

Instead, our airwaves are inundated with a plethora of programmes depicting semi-literate characters in silly Maltese background situation comedies that really serve no one except the lowest-based instincts.