Television and Solidarity: a complicated understanding - The Freethinker

Telemendicidad and solidarity

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Toni Moreno presents” Together “. Photo: RTVE

Numerous social organizations, including the General Labour Social Council , require removal grilled Among program because their actions, say, public television promotes the replacement of social rights laws listed in charity without respecting the dignity of the people, without addressing the problems from the point of view of the universality of aid, exposing confidential data from affected and the result of a simple patch for families and an attack on the welfare state. It explains the specific problem but not reported the causes that trigger these situations for which assistance is requested, no mention of the figures of unemployment, cuts in research or the progressive loss of the national health system, but it is emphasis on citizen mobilization optimism that will get immediate help.

Spain From outside this program analysis has been much harder. Longtime French conservative daily Le Figaro magazine despises the work in a recent report, explaining that is “ sad faces unabashedly undressing in front of the anchor “and describing it as” e l poor program Spain “.

With the holidays just around the corner and shopping centers full of ornaments and gifts and directed to the heart but pointing out the portfolio, solidarity becomes present in our lives to move us, sensitize and rip the commitment to collaborate. There are many causes that can contribute, usually demand our money, but also have to thank our time, some are with us and others to thousands of kilometers.

Nobody can therefore doubt that helping others is a laudable initiative. In any situation, in any way, collaborating with others is a great job if it is done for ethically. In a few weeks will be filled television telethons, raffles solidarity campaigns, toys, food, sponsorship, etc., all with the same goal: to awaken our solidarity, we should be alert and also activates the rest of the year to help with small gestures, to which the world had greater equality and social justice.

However, the economic crisis, the reduction of social rights and public support for the disadvantaged has elevated solidarity as the main resource and almost sole claim to address the need … The journalists also hoisted the flag because play an important role in society: denounce instances of injustice and also ask help to solve the problem.

Television programs mentioned in this tightrope move not without controversy has a very legitimate background as is the mobilization of the hearing to assist the requesting it but with a high cost moral to be a live television show from the audience and deepens with morbid personal tragedies. In the end, many of them become a hotchpotch degenerative diseases by mixing with business ideas, home renovation with work requests … without much discretion supportive and reasonable doubt as to whether a sufficient control.

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managers and programmers have not yet asked what if the audience does not endorse or get tired of this showcase telemendicidad which squeezes immediate solidarity with so much adrenaline and tears and applause. Will it mean the end of solidarity on TV? Obviously not, there are other programs, for example, that put the focus on the person helping, demonstrating that this is not any invention or television revolution, but only against an old formula to gain audience: appeal to the feelings, something that is outside of journalism committed and supportive.

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Article submitted by: Alberto López Herrero . Reporter

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