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> Seriously, this is a double-edged sword. If the folks in
> Madrid continue to advertise Castile and Andalusia as representatives
> of Spain, it follows that the Catalans, Galicians and Basques aren't.
I'm afraid that this also happens inside Spain where on the TV they only
speak about Andalusia, a bit about Barcelona, Madrid and that's all.
Every now and then there is a "Sevilla es una ciudad diferente" special
with all the big folkloric crap which I guess will also revolve a lot of
true blooded sevillians. But the same happens to Aragonese, Cantabrians,
Castillians, Galicians, Riojans etc which are aswell ignored on the media.
The plastic flamenco (that is the glamourous, nearly tucky style of TVE of
what they mean with Andalousian-Spanish folclorical culture, with little
to do with the Flamenco in the streets of Sevilla) model is the main
cultural value. In an other program they represent some kind of intergames
between cities or villages (Interpueblos) borrowed from the french TV, in
that program between gorgeous women in bikini and horrible colour uniforms
the spain of Toros, pandereta and chorizo fight in different games so the
ppl in Villarriba can see themselves on TV ("Did you see the milkman
playing football in the swimming pool?", "How funny when the postman felt
from 10 mts height!").
But worse, ETB is following the same pattern, and we now have the "Txapela
and kalimotxo telebista". No comment on the film about the Olentzero last
christmas. No matter you don't have a VCR, in ETB (the other Television
personal) you can always watch that program you missed again as anything
is repeated 4 times a day. As it happens with Goenkale. Then if you don't
like Pelota as it's my case, it can be hell with so many retransmissions
of football and Pelota our TV set screen became green and now everything
we watch is in green. We are lucky that they don't buy exclusive of Mus
Championships to pass them on live conexion.
And as the ETB1 was a kind of ETB PNV.
ETB2 looks like ETB PSOE, with bull fighing, flamenco, galician pipes and
debates on wether Viagra is good or bad with the Jerry Springer (Antxon
Urrusolo?) style.
Beyond this there is no other program which protraits the diversity in
Basque country (Except some documentaries). Then, ther is Jaiak, a rain
of Kalimotxo shown from almost 60 different places in the basque country
presented by twats asking people about the song of the summer (la cancion
del verano, udako abestia) and on winter the Euskaraoke which runs all
over Euskadi in order to ridiculise all the kids on their ikastola age
(be a TV star for one day).
Sorry I had it inside me and now I feel much better.
Beyond that the media panorama on one side or the other do very little to
promote the Basque Country in a serious way.
Bye
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Juan Etxenike Almeida
University of Warwick