Colombia. This year at the Academic Meeting of the Association of Faculties of Communication (AFACOM), which reaches its 40th version, the panel discussion 'The TV we want' was included in the agenda of the event.
On this occasion, the members of the National Television Board Olga Castaño, representative of the Universities and Suzy Sierra, representative of Civil Society, participated. The space allowed us to reflect on the role of public television to promote an audiovisual narrative elaborated from the victims, whose main purpose is to build the historical moments of war and peace lived by Colombians, through new collective imaginaries.
Addressing the issue of how to change the traditional discourse of journalism in the face of the phenomena of war and peace, Olga Castaño indicated that the conflict must be told from the perspective of those affected by violence, because the predominant knowledge of the conflict focuses on knowing the perpetrators. Suzy Sierra said that given the dominance in the media of spectacularity, sensationalism and immediacy, there is a possibility that the victim of the war will be empowered and tell his story to society.
Later, when discussing how public television would allow the audience to understand the conflict from its origin, Castaño said that from the ANTV efforts are made so that public television assumes the spokesperson, in order to narrate the stories of the conflict that illustrate its causes and origins. While Sierra, commented that the Entity works with audiovisual filmmakers to understand phenomena of prosumo in content to generate inclusion by giving voice to those who have not had it.
Finally, Suzy Sierra pointed out that the Colombian State is the promoter of new imaginaries of the conflict in Colombia by promoting interaction between the regulator, producer and the audience, with the purpose of making television for those who care about the national reality and educating the public.
The conversation was attended by the war photographer Gervasio Sánchez, the research professor of the Universidad del Norte Jair Vergara and the journalist Alfredo Sabbagh who represented from various social sectors such as academia, journalism, viewers and regulators in the discussion.
