Tele-garbage flourishes in Spain

A woman was recently killed in Spain by her ex-boyfriend who had appeared on television several days in an attempt to win her back. Juan Cueto thinks that this story should push Spain to reflect on the content of its television programs. "It is absolutely false to say that our tele-garbage - morning, day and night - has any equivalent on the mainstream networks in Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany or the Eastern European countries who have yet to see much liberty of expression on the screen. ... Those who are opposed to all forms of censorship have put a lot of hope in the self-regulatory code signed a few months ago by the private stations. But the main Spanish television networks are following the global trend toward a 'garbage space' [as it is defined by Rem Koolhaas] and they have arranged it so that they can ignore the signed document without any afterthoughts."

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