New practitioners from journalism schools and entertainers or hosts of “journalistic” programs repeat the nonsense of a coordinated pattern in all channels and media, fueling fear, insecurity and perceptions of risks in days when we precisely need peace, calm and calm.
José Luis Córdova. Journalist. “The century”. Santiago. 5/2/2024. It is assumed that in the summer months people watch more television than during the year. The vacation period, when children do not go to school and the elderly have a few days off, accompanied by their grandparents and friends at home – on the beach, in the countryside or in the mountains – there is no shortage of relaxing moments in front of a television. television.
Unfortunately we have to recommend Cable, Netflix and other prepaid platforms as healthy entertainment and also to find out what is happening in Chile and the world.
For better or worse, some “faces” take well-deserved days off and, especially in the press departments of the channels, enthusiastic young men and women appear replacing the ineffable “noteros” on the beaches, restaurants, traffic inspections in the streets and even in unfortunate accidents or criminal acts of repeated occurrence.
It is true that our country – like everyone else on this planet – remains ravaged by crime, organized crime, drug trafficking and violence at all levels as a hallmark of our time. But it is a very different thing to approach this “information” with a clear political overtone (openly against the Government of President Gabriel Boric), with a marked sensationalist accent and significant levels of morbidity, xenophobia, racism and classism with the aim of frightening and raising expectations. signs of insecurity in the population.
Who could spend quiet days on a beach if all the television channels repeatedly and almost exclusively report on criminal events in neighborhoods and cities where vacationers seek to rest and isolate themselves from the madding crowd?
Assaults, robberies in homes, lock-ins, “door slams” are common throughout the year, but a media as relevant as television does the wrong thing in highlighting these criminal activities as inevitable, close, and sowing terror and morbidity within the communities. Chilean families.
Even figures like the former minister of former President Piñera, Mario Desbordes, a former police officer, have had to call for calm and responsibility, explaining that the current government has made an effort to confront these scourges of society with concrete measures, appropriate legislation in parliament and direct actions by protection of citizens that are not taken into account by open television.
It seems that the current administration of the country is indolent, that it does not want to take on the task of safeguarding order while a right-wing pack demands states of exception, that the military take to the streets and directly confront crime. They have even forced the President to convene the National Security Council (Cosena) for non-binding consultations as if it were the solution to the problems.
Nobody wants to acknowledge that homicides have obviously decreased, but not the indiscriminate use of weapons, even among uniformed and former civilian uniformed men who confront the underworld, murder innocents (even children) and perpetrate risky actions on the streets of our cities. The origin of the illegal arms trade also has explanations in official barracks and warehouses and it is unknown how they end up in the wrong hands of the underworld.
The Gun Control Law, their use, as well as a correct Intelligence policy are the measures that the Government is trying to approve in the face of opposition from figures such as mayors Evelyn Mathei and Rodolfo Carter; former ministers like Jaime Bellolio and parliamentarians like Diego Schalper, sheltered from television to instill terror and magnify errors and weaknesses of the government that is making a determined effort to confront the situation with legal weapons that give confidence.
Attitudes such as that of the general director of Carabineros Ricardo Yáñez – like some of his predecessors currently prosecuted – do not contribute to social peace while waiting to be formalized – only next May – for his eventual responsibility in the crime of omission of restraints illegitimate crimes resulting in serious injuries and homicide during the social outbreak of October 2019.
While new practitioners from journalism schools and entertainers or hosts of “journalistic” programs repeat the nonsense of a coordinated pattern in all channels and media, fueling fear, insecurity and perceptions of risks in days when we precisely need peace, calm and tranquility.
It seems that the only antidote in this “violent summer” is the suspension of “political” programs such as “Zero Tolerance”, “Mesa Central” and “Estado Nacional” that have been replaced by morning programs openly dedicated to proselytism, early pre-candidacies and politics at its worst electoral expression.
2024-02-11 09:35:31
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