In his weekly article in the online edition of The Times, Fr Joe Borg - a government advisor and accomplished journalist - takes a critical look at the new year's eve TV broadcast that welcomed the introduction of the euro. He calls it a 'fiasco' fronted by 'the bevy of ill prepared and totally unscripted TV presenters from PBS and Net':

..The momentousness of the night was flattened out (not just dampened) by the amateurish production broadcast by the three main TV stations. Those who stayed at home were bored to death. Only those most masochistically inclined managed to stomach more than thirty minutes of it. All the persons I spoke to felt really cheated..

How could anyone have so much potential - concerts and fireworks - available and manage to produce something more banal and inane than Il-Lejla! Il-Lejla! and Il-Kunjata lumped up together? It was really a "produzzjoni tan-NECC"...

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