Más allá de la telebasura: las pseudociencias

Abstract

In 1976, TVE began broadcasting Más Allá (The Beyond), a pioneer program at that time for Spanish television. Thirty years later, channels of one stripe or another maintain a self-interested relationship with all of those matters which, as they are appealing to a certain sector of the audience, have to do with UFO’s, parapsychology and the occult, as well as the post- 9-11 “conspiranoias” and hard-core sensationalism. The current success of Cuarto Milenio on channel four does nothing but call into doubt the very essence of a certain type of journalism which, with ever greater frequency, does not hesitate to cross, whenever convenient, that dangerous line which separates news from pure entertainment.