ENTRY 24

"Dogs are barking Sancho,signal that we ride”. The phrase, said by the noble Don Quixote De La Mancha, was used textually by Marcelo Tinelli days before, when he answer the Comfer, that had sanctioned his program “ShowMatch” by its famous “EROTIC POLE DANCE”.There is a reality that hurts: television lives in a constant vertigo, and not only by the atrocious competition between channel 13 and Telefe channel by rating points but also because he has arrived to an evil level . Sanity that, apparently, is rather far. Mainly, by the decision of Mr T(whose name I do not care to recall)to double the bet and to organise a new dance, this time with striptease included.But the pole dancing generated an effect that still continues shaking all the media. This week, all the newspapers were overloaded by letters that criticised not only the excesses of ShowMatch but also the scandals of the Argentine television, and made reference to cycles of a deep intellectual poverty but of great potential for the scandals, like the famous “big Brother”.We have seen the naked dancing of Julio Bocca and nobody was scandalised by it, because he is erotic, but of good taste and cultural quality.Cheap eroticism is necessary to leave it for porno videos. It is certain that we are free to turn off the television set or to change the channel. But it is also certain that what is seen at night and that generated more than 25 points of rating, is repeated in each one of the cycles in the morning and in the afternoon . The worse aspect of this, without a doubt, is the false success model that transmits to young children and adolescents. And it is here where government and parents must react and act at once. Because it would be very sad that in the near future, we end up seeing how, in the 15 celebration parties , the traditional waltz dance is replaced by an almost porno POLE DANCE around which the girls move their adolescent bodies to the rythm of any music.