Thursday, November 11, 2010

9th Post: Freedom: The quality of television in Chile


Every day we listen opinions of the bad quality of Chilean television, and do I believe that it is true the Chilean television it is bad, but is the question why it is bad? The answer can find it to the interior of our society. Since we have a private system of television, the one which economically is negotiated starting from the demand of the society, then that makes it is to surrender what we request, what the town wants, that is to say people want to know what happens to the models, footballers, etc. The television is not more than the reflection of what we are as society, and it doesn't seem that we care a lot that the television educates us, etc.
Now, if what we want is a change that our television is of more quality as for its "contents", the way of financing it cannot be the private one, since being deprived they will always sell the product that blindfolds more, what the populus wants. The solution would be to have a public financing of television, for example through the payment of a specific tax, a bound television to the University, like it was the original project of the law of concessions, on one hand the channel 13 of the Catholic University, the channel 5 of PUCV, and the 11 that it was of the University of Chile (the concession), together to the channel of the State that is TVN. These proposals correspond models that exist in the world, our model is a copy of U.S., that is to say financed for private, on the other hand a public model can find it in Europe with channels like Italian RAI, German Deutsche Welle, etc. In that the quality of its content belongs together with a culturally high standard. Then the question is: are we willing to change the system of financing of television, or do we prefer to continue with the private system? I believe that the majority answer is "free" the preference for a system, that is to say private. I personally believe that the new generations want another television type, but apparently that it is a debate that for the time being it is pending and that it doesn't probably have handle in a neoliberal country as Chile.

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