I am simply mystified. We have plenty of public media stations - both radio and television - yet not one of them has deemed it fit to broadcast 'public service clips' that should hopefully help educate the Maltese to behave in the correct way. 

I do not mean how to hold a fork and knife here. I am asking why we do not have a series of clips on, for example, how to drive properly.

Letters appear with constant frequency deploring our low driving standards. Yet no one uses these audio and video mediums, beamed direct into our homes, to help raise the standard.

I appreciate that the media has 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 the standard of driving in Malta.

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

This, rather than the silly chitchat of some of the self-appointed and so-called DJs who constantly blare out music while making stupid comment usually accompanied by equally inane laughter more often at their own silly comments.

There are other areas that can be addressed apart from the all too obvious 'driving' capabilities, or rather lack thereof. 

A 'Keep Malta Clean' campaign would not be amiss. We used to have a character - Xummiemu - who, in the past, was making inroads into the psyche of throwing rubbish in the street rather than taking it home and binning it.

This character - painstakingly developed over the years - is now unfortunately just a distant memory. He has been allowed to die or at best pensioned off. Why?

What about a campaign to highlight the dangerous ill effects of cigarettes or dire warnings against the so-called soft drugs tempting our young?

It is beyond my comprehension why these types of education slots are not constantly beamed into households to raise awareness on these hugely important issues.

Yet, unbelievably enough, 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 those with the lowest of baser instincts.

Stephen Saliba

San Gwann