🚀 go-pugleaf

Ondo esanda,
but this stuff works. If we ever see anything here about Spain (ezerez
Portugalez) it has to be flamenco and toros (by the way, a town of Nevada
now has a bull run like that in Irunea--watch out). There is nothing else.
JMallea

 On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Juan Etxenike Almeida wrote:

> > 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
>  --
> Juan Etxenike Almeida
> University of Warwick
>