Friday, August 27, 2010

The miners


About the new of miners traps, I chatted with some schoolmates on the topic. One said that the people have been into the reality show, were interviewee about the confinement`s conditions for say to the miners some advises. We thought that is a curious situation, however, the situation in the mine is enough similar to a reality show. The fact is terrible, but the processing by mass media is following the line of spectacle, the performance.
Moreover, the new of the miners monopolize the rest of new that is happening in Chile. This happen always in Chile, one new prevail everything else.
I think there is a use politic since there are a series of symbols patriots that have been developed in the last days: flogs, hymns, speeches. The processing of the politics has been sentimental, there are a lot of speeches emotional, they speak of heroes, but the responsibility is more important than the sentiments.
This new has been very important, but it has been contaminating for the processing by mass media and the politics, above all for the celebration by our bicentenary. The medias are very powerful and they distort and manage the reality. I don`t think that the new of miners is very important and above all I am in disagreement with the mass media.
I have chosen this new since she represent the reality of Chile`s media. The miners situation will continued occupying the national attention.
Well, I hope that news change and we can see others realities.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you in what you said about how the news turned into some kind of spectacle the miners situation, and I think that this has been use as a way of making nationalistic comments, like people who says that the miners are alive because they are the vivid example of the Chilean spirit and so on. That has nothing to do with it, I think that the miners are alive because they work with professionalism. And that is more that can be said about the bussiness men (or whatever) that were in charge of the mine, the goverment and the media.
    Regards.

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