Dismissing minister's efforts

Super One Television recently refrained from broadcasting a 30-second clip produced by the Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure, which was designed to make viewers aware that indiscriminate dumping costs a lot of taxpayers' money.

The short clip also features a number of public projects undertaken by the same ministry during the past year, making the point that more projects would have been completed had the money spent to make good for irresponsible dumping been invested in infrastructural projects.

Although one must appreciate that any private station retains full control over its contest, I fail to understand why Super One decided not to air the clip, especially since the Labour Party - which owns the station - has always claimed it had the country's progress at heart. On balance the production did not have any contentious content, and the information was completely factual.

Attempting to obscure the outstanding work done by Ninu Zammit does not inspire much credibility in the moderate viewer, in the same way it would have not made sense had anyone atempted to dismiss Minister Francis Zammit Dimech's contribution or Charles Buhagiar's incessant efforts as minister during the 1996-98 Labour administration.

Clearly, more maturity is called for.