The bad habits in the field

The other day a couple of journalist came to make a chat of the internet media. They were from an independent media, which it is pretty weird in this country, considering the concentration of the media in Chili.

The concentration of the press ownership in Chile is one of bigger problems of the journalism. But, there is also another thing that is very alarming. All the media talk about the same subjects or issues.

The academic term is Homogeneity, but in newspaper slang is known as “hacer mesa”, it is Spanish expression refer to make copy page. In other words look what others medias published, change a few words a published the article. No innovation or  any sort of investigation.

Have of the chat was related with these practice in the journalism. They talk about it, but they don’t realized how dangerous it is. Right after they finished the teacher get up from her sit and left the room. She was absolutely indignant. Her attitude  wasn’t very polite. However, she understand how important it is to generate own content.

The issues that conform the setting agency aren’t the most relevant, we have clarity of that. Sometimes we talk about the subject that generated more click bates, pure sensationalism. But in other occasions we talk about issues that are closed to elite.

Consider this context, the biggest challenge for the future is to be able to communicate about the social problems of our society, about what is truly important.