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Comunicar Journal 31: To teach the look. Some proposals to teach watching TV (Vol. 16 - 2008)

Children programmes and sensationalist TV: entertaining, misinforming, miseducating

https://doi.org/10.3916/c31-2008-01-008

Patricia Digón-Regueiro

Abstract

Children television in Spain is closely bound to the widespread commercial TV model. The analysis of children programmes broadcast in a regional channel of Spanish public television allows us to see not only the scarce investment for children programmes, but also the inclusion of some contents and values which could be considered as inappropriate from an educational viewpoint.

Keywords

Children programmes, commercial television, «container programmes», children serial, physical violence, sexism