Monegal’s Critique: Democratic Plurality in Humor

The Premis Nacionals de Comunicació have just been awarded, and as far as the television universe is concerned, they have fallen on the programs ‘Crims’ and ‘Polònia’. From ‘Crims’ the jury has highlighted the good work of Carles Porta in terms: “He has risked without falling into sensationalism.” I agree. The terrain that works Brings, the bloodiest events, the most horrific murders, it is an ideal area for yellowing to be unleashed and encouraged. When television starts to manufacture emotional impacts to get more audience, it does so without ethics or code of ethics, aesthetics or respect. Brings he has known how to walk through that thread maintaining a virtuous journalistic balance.

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The other award-winning program, ‘Polònia’, the jury considers that it deserves it because after 15 years on the air it has practiced political satire “With democratic plurality.” Ah! This is a great topic. The democratic plurality of satire, sarcasm, in short, of what we call ‘humor’. The classics of this genre say that there is no honest comedian if he does not respect this rule: distribute the bite equally. This honesty of humor on TV-3 has been almost completely lost. The funny regulars who dot their shows always bite into them. I have said it many times: they are not comedians, they are guerrillas installed in trenches. It is not even a brave exercise: it is a comfortable sectarianism, because the very television artifact that pays them, drives them and protects them. Let’s just take one example out of hundreds. This ‘governet a l’ombra’ that the PSC has established to monitor and prevent possible outrages by the Government, has been and continues to be the object of constant joking among the ‘humor professionals’ of TV-3. It’s great that they do. I laugh and celebrate. But, they are silent and avoid any satire or sarcasm about that fantasy of the ‘consell de la republiqueta’ that has been mounted in Waterloo. Not a peep about that. Not a hilarious or comical allusion.

Of all this false humor installed on TV-3, ‘Polònia’ can be described as an exception. With reservations if you want, but it is the exception. In his latest installment he tells you Laura Borràs a Pere Aragonès: “Listen Peter, we need to amend article twenty-two point three. In other words, if they charge me, nothing will happen! A short couplet that gives meaning to its prize: that rarity called democratic plurality in humor.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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