The television news programs expand their contents, approaches and treatments and extend coverage to the most recondite points surprising us with unusual and dazzling images. In the struggle for a larger and more numerous audience, the rights that protect human dignity, their own image and intimacy are often forgotten. It is a struggle between two fronts: on the one hand, the economic interests, which see the citizen as a client and information as a commodity, and, on the other, the ideological-political power, which tries to influence the audience to capture votes.
This work approaches the strategies of representation of the present in television examining with great precision its ethical, aesthetic and thematic dimensions in all its complexity. The author deals with the conception of information in programs such as magazines, talk shows and in the various information modalities, from newscasts to in-depth commentaries or documentaries.
In the great changes that have taken place in the television information during the last years it emphasizes not only its global and local deployment under the mercantile and ideological-political dictates, but also the movement that foments the globalization of a solidary information to the democratic service of the society.