Já no ano passado Stephen Bush tinha aflorado o tema do fim da TV e das suas consequências sociais em "This will be the UK's first post-TV election" que comentei nesta Curiosidade do dia de 28 de Junho de 2024. Agora, no passado dia 17 ele volta ao tema com "Without TV in common, can we still live together?":
"If television producers travelled from the UK in 1977 to 2025, looking at the chart positions of the two programmes, they would conclude that Coronation Street and Doctor Who were as strong as ever. But there are now many more programmes, much more choice and very few of us are held to the schedulers' whims. We watch what we want, when we want to: and as a result even a chart-topper rarely gets above 10mn viewers.
What we are seeing is fragmentation - of where we get both our entertainment and our news. This is a trend that our time-travelling producers would begin to understand as they looked at the viewing figures for ...
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More importantly, it is bad news for modern states, which are held together to some extent by the sense that we are all part of a collective endeavour. Those of us who are prime working age, who receive and need vanishingly little in the way of state largesse, cross-subsidise the expensive things we will (hopefully) do at the start and end of our lives: get educated, get sick, grow old, and die.
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When we no longer have a shared reality, this sense of a collective endeavour is harder to cultivate. It is then that our societies no longer have the required level of shared sympathy to make the young willing to subsidise the old, adults happy to pay for other people's children and an agreed upon framework of facts - not least 'was this election fair?' - which representative democracies require to function."
Stephen Bush reflecte a ideia de que a televisão partilhada criava uma base emocional e cultural para a solidariedade intergeracional (pagar impostos para serviços de outros) e isso terminou. Relaciona o declínio da audiência partilhada com a dificuldade crescente de aceitar verdades comuns (“was this election fair?”), o autor sugere que a televisão teve um papel estruturante na manutenção da confiança mútua e no funcionamento das democracias representativas. A ausência de experiências mediáticas comuns pode corroer o apoio ao estado social.
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1 comentário:
Não me parece uma conclusão errada. Quando há muito para escolher, a inércia leva-nos a ficar com o primeiro peixe que vem à rede...
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