Poverty Portrayed: A Creative Role for Maltese Television

Abstract

This observe analyzed the extent of creativity and portrayal of poverty inside 3 Maltese tv programmes aired at top time on TVM, the Maltese National tv station. This became finished via qualitative techniques of records series and evaluation, specifically in-intensity non-public interviews and textual evaluation of a handpicked pattern of the programmes below investigation. The interviews have been carried out with 9 distinctive stakeholders, specifically manufacturers, human rights activists, advertisers and the Chief Executive of the Malta Broadcasting Authority. These interviews discovered that manufacturers followed a passive technique closer to poverty as their thoughts and guidelines replicate a brief time period vision. Conversely, human rights activists believed that during widespread Maltese TV carried out a wishes primarily based totally technique closer to the problem of poverty, and this ended in a loss of creativity. Producers related creativity particularly with the style in their content. The interviews in addition discovered that manufacturers have been privy to generating sensationalist tales due to the fact of their view the ones tales shape a part of Maltese reality. The textual evaluation discovered that manufacturers restrained creativity to the edited capabilities inside their programme. The observe concluded that development and creativity have been restrained in view of the increase of the recognition of the programmes. It counseled that creativity may be applied to provide programmes which are persuasive, credible and influential, consequently with out portraying poverty as an irreversible cause.