Los modernos alcahuetes mediáticos

Authors

  • Carlos Elías Author Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Keywords:

Junk TV, information, chitchat/gossip, journalistic ethics.

Abstract

In the short space of ten years, the Spanish television has shot straight from only 1 to 17 programs devoted to talk about the private life of all kinds of celebrities. These “chitchat” and gossip shows have invaded primetime spaces with the largest audiences, and generate very high screen measurement levels. In the eyes of public opinion, this phenomenon is further discrediting the prestige of a profession: journalism, which anyway, as it is, has already won many detractors. As a formula to palliate this problem, its has been suggested that, from now on, the so-called “journalists of the heart” are euphemistically mentioned as “popular communicators”; or - with no euphemisms at all and in a more pure language, with the most proper terms: gossipmongers, meddlers, or muckrakers.

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Author Biography

Carlos Elías, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Profesor titular de Periodismo Especializado en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Licenciado en Ciencias de la Información (Periodismo) y en Ciencias Químicas por la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), donde se doctoró con Premio Extraordinario. Ha colaborado con los diarios ABC y Canarias 7, y ha trabajado como redactor de las secciones Política y Local en la Agencia Efe. Entre 2000 y 2002 se encargó de parte de la información de Ciencia del diario El Mundo. Es autor del libro "La ciencia a través del periodismo" (Editorial Nivola), así como de diferentes trabajos de investigación sobre sociología de la ciencia, periodismo especializado y televisión.

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How to Cite

Elías, C. (2009). Los modernos alcahuetes mediáticos. Palabra Clave, 9. Retrieved from https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/422

Issue

Vol. 9 (2003): Reality: ¿nueva televisión o telebasura?

Section

Temas de Portada

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