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28 / 05 / 2004
Hansjurgen Rosenbauer: There will be less sensationalism on TV in the future
The president of Input pointed out the trend towards documentaries with a political consciousness this afternoon at the “Input 2004 TV Citizens Dialogue”
“TV should be a matter of public health, as it can end up destroying viewers’ brains,” said Joan Ubeda, the director of the Dialogue, this afternoon
The president of Input (International Public Television Conference), Hansjurgen Rosenbauer, stated that the future of television involves a combination of less sensationalism and “documentaries with a greater political consciousness.”
Rosenbauer stated that sensationalist news will lead to a return to fiction, while our increasingly political reality will call for a stronger commitment, without turning our backs on what is happening. He added that the new digital formats that are starting to be used for TV will lower costs and make it easier to achieve higher quality in TV programming.
Joan Ubeda, director of the Dialogue, compared social health to individual health and noted that we should protect ourselves from television as we protect ourselves from illness, as “TV affects society’s democratic health—it is not innocuous—and the dosage of sentimental pornography has an impact on viewers.”
He later stated that “societies should be careful about what they give themselves as a message and TV is too important, it has too much power, for us to allow it to be self-regulated solely by the market.”
Summing up, the most important aspects dealt with at this Input, Joan Ubeda pointed out, “television is not controlled by demand, on the contrary it’s the availability of good programming that creates the demand.” He pointed out that some countries are exploring the creation of a rating system that would not just value numbers but other aspects of the quality of the programming as well.
He also requested better monitoring of private television because “it is a public product that should be used with a sense of social responsibility.”
The Dialogue ‘Input 2004. TV Citizens.’ Ends this evening with the screening of the film “Panorama” by Russian director Victor Kossakovsky, a movie made in just a week with masters students at the Barcelona School of Cinema.
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