Elementos para una genealogía del término "telebasura" en España

Abstract

Where does the term “trash TV” come from? Given the definition provided by the academicians of the Royal Academy of Language, one could draw the erroneous conclusion that, in Spain, the invocation of quality as the rudder that guides television seems to restrict itself to what is so considered by journalists, politicians and Catholic moralists. The different “Manifestos”, media debates, editorial declarations and legislative attempts which, since March 2001, have appeared in our country based on the debate against trash TV, have combined a certain definition of the term and an absolute vagueness with regard to the topic of quality, without, up to now, there having been any visible concern from the areas of academic thought or from the industry.