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About mutilation of the title "The damn country "on public TV Ecuadorian César Ricaurte a note appeared in the newspaper today of the July 8, 2009.

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By César Ricaurte


TV critic is not the first time Ecuador to TV and independent film Ecuador have trouble. A few months ago and there was a controversy over emissions from some movies without proper permission of the authors, mutilation and even complaints about claims by the courts in the credits.

So unfortunately This happened over a week ago with the documentary This damn country of Juan Martín Cueva is the absurdity of a long penultimate succession of them. For those who still do not know, Ecuador TV decided to issue the work under its title censored to reduce it to this country. What's going on in Ecuador TV? Why can not start as a true public television project? At most are content with a "we are less bad than the other channels" and "we have programming for children." Which inevitably know very little. Let's review more, this Sunday, RTU relaying live images of the attempted return of Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, provided by Telesur and CNN in English. Ecuador What happened to TV? Issued as an entertainment program. The problem, as always, is not on the sheets. The thing is born without a plan Ecuador TV. He was born without a functioning status that would guarantee freedom of management, legal clarity, independent editorial line this year, things have deteriorated rather than improved. Instead of meeting the criterion of respect for a work and its author was serving a morality so limited that it considers inappropriate a word like "damn."

Time GMT: 08/Julio/2009 - 5:02

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Cerbino: "Public Inquisition"

Taken from the print edition of The Telegraph of July 5, 2009

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from bad to worse. Not only is there a serious discussion about the meanings of public television into the medium and in the country, but also strengthens a position that public television is to exercise control over the content being broadcast. This control is not even like the attitude of the "politically correct" any discussion becomes apathetic. Is more in the nature of censorship in the style of those perpetrated by regimes that are of a moral fanaticism north to take discriminatory decisions that violate the principles of equity smallest. Outrage

is what gives me the EcuadorTV learned that having a communication project that many have opted to "clean up" the swamp existing television for 40 years, censoring content that it considers not in keeping with its "institutional politics." I refer to the amputation (a term that gives shudder) the title of the documentary by Juan Martín Cueva this damned country that was reduced to "This Country."

And what are the arguments? Managers refer to decisions made by an ineffable programming committee has the duty to enforce the standard by which "can not submit titles or content which offend the susceptibility, beliefs, idiosyncrasies and values \u200b\u200bof the audience. " Go trick! The members of this committee have an idea (not knowledge) very strange about the "audience" (named after acquiring the meaning of a uniform and compact mass), because they think it would affect the "bad words" or would offend images of naked bodies. These advocates of "public morality", a term that recalls the worst attitudes inquisitorial, arrogate to themselves the right to define in advance what may or may not see the helpless and infantilized viewers when, less hypocrisy, might wonder if is possible mutilation films of what they claim is "beyond the rating we can give them, arouse interest and encourage reflection on some subject of a public nature. It is impossible not to relate these censures the mutilations and concealment that the Catholic Church has done in the past (and present) in different works. The veils in the paintings or the amputation of the male organ of the sculptures are a notorious example.

do not want a TV as well. Confusing common interest with moralizing. With the pretext of safeguarding the viewers (who do not know) falls into the same errors committed by private means hiding behind in an "editorial" content does not discriminate "convenient." The program committee and the directors of the channel is more involved in renewing languages \u200b\u200band aesthetics television, promoting plurality accepting expressions of those who never spoke in the media, to promote greater and more diverse generation of content themselves and not canned acquired Miami fairs that come with the letterhead "for public media." That left alone the contents of works of fiction that we do need to think about the country, whatever, which we define as we wish, without censorship.

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... on the TV Public reflection Zuck Santiago Rosero appeared today in The Telegraph.

Taken from the print edition of July 4, 2009
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Santiago Rosero

In talks Culture and Social Transformation on that developed last week in the FLACSO and USFQ participated, among other speakers, the Venezuelan sociologist Tulio Hernandez and the American academic George Yudice.

Landing today in our context, Yudice said that in an ideal scenario the closure of a television channel to serve as a catapult into space to replace the closed include locally produced content and choice, understood this as an opening to the plurality of information, the incentive independent production and the generation of a movement of divergent ways that are promoted with canned openings rating thirsty.

This, Tulio Hernandez countered by arguing that in Venezuela, following the closure of Radio Caracas Television, according to research by the Institute of Communication Studies, the inclusion of content premises in the new channel had decreased by 50%.

Yudice said that the statement was not a guarantee per se but a condition of possibility. It was that or the eternal clash with private means above all assess the economic potential of media products, but by no means a definitive guarantee.

The condition of possibility, in its development than rely on a technology platform available, would have to be encouraged by the design of a policy which set out policy frameworks that promote and protect local production and alternative, where the alternative should be directed to a dispute over space and construction of meanings rather than alternating with, or worse than a continuation of the establishment.

While Ecuador's TV is not the case of a canal that came to replace one closed, it is-or at least well conceived in the ideal, the effort to install the country's public television . However, the foundation of the public in order to promote local production and to enhance the visibility of individuals, processes and discourses traditionally excluded, far from being achieved much in its management. And only that the notion of the public lacks strength but old vices as arbitrary censorship have begun to settle into their grills program. Happened to Ecuadorian filmmakers work: the short Pia Javier Andrade, apart from having passed without their permission, we will cut off the "bad words" and recently, the documentary This damn country, Juan Martín Cueva, he curtailed the adjective.

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disrespect involving the alteration of a copyright work without his consent, there ECTV in the conduct of the more worrisome signs: the interference of a morality that seems to ingratiate susceptibility to any public that they have defined. The questions: Who or what will answer that moral censorship and restricts? "On behalf of the channel who speaks? What public means public broadcaster's editorial line?

As things stand, according to the bet Yudice, the condition of possibility for the public involves a dynamic contents from prudish morality in TVET is to balance negative.