La ética olvidada: El valor comercial de los espacios informativos de la televisión en España

Abstract

This article shows that television news, the emblematic public service programs in television networks, have bowed to the commercial pressures of the media and have introduced non-conventional practices in the daily work of the news report. The analysis of the news in the leading private television channels in Spain reveals how the frontier between advertising and journalism has been obliterated. The audiovisual information - as shown in this paper - has been contaminated by commercial advertising practices and the self-promotion strategies of television networks.