Ten people, including three famous French athletes, died in Argentina participating in the filming of a reality TV show, Dropped. A concept consisting of Sweden to let wilderness two sports teams, with nothing but a little water and a GPS beacon.
Bereaved, the TF1 television channel that was broadcasting the show has it all stopped. He will never see the day.
"These are circumstances that would never live for us and obviously it's terrible because we want to bring happiness and in this case we saw a drama" responded Nonce Paolini, CEO of the chain .
A black series for TF1. In 2013, on the set of Koh Lanta, French version of "Survivor" also invented by the Swedish, a candidate dies of cardiac arrest. A few days later, the doctor of the program, questioned by the media, feeling dirty, commits suicide. A double tragedy will throw a shadow on the program.
Since their invention in the 90s, reality TV programs have changed. They make their way media burst and become unavoidable in 1999 with Big Brother. It is the Dutch who launch this concept which will tour the world. The principle: a group of candidates live together for three months. Participants are cut off from the world, but filmed round the clock.
At all times, through the dissemination but also Internet, viewers can see them move into the house, and follow their every move. A highly voyeuristic concept that sprays the audience. Reality TV has entered our lives.
Since the programs are multiplying and always go further. It is no longer only to see living people but Surtour to see beyond their limits, endangering themselves, face their fears. New development in recent years, the people involved. A plus for the hearing.
And participants often an opportunity to stay on the front of the stage when their career is at half mast or over, or take on new challenges.
Sophie Desjardin, euronews:
Dominique Wolton, hello, you are director of research at CNRS, media specialist, television. And it also speaks of television in this drama of a reality TV show.
Still, this is not the first time that this type of issue, where risk-taking is the basis of the concept and not just in France of course, there are dead. What does this tell us about what happened on TV today?
Dominique Wolton, a specialist media:
Well first, it's a tragedy, it's clear. What is new in our society if you will, is that people experience violence and danger and distance adventure.
That is to say that we are in a society that on the one hand is completely obsessed with the precautionary principle. Need to do anything, everything is controlled and in front of television screens or in front of video games or in front of computers, there can be any and all excesses are possible.
We live vicariously through a form of voyeurism, games increasingly dangerous and everyone finds that normal. And as there is a lot of money that is involved in it, well, it goes faster and further in a kind of race to exploit.
And mount the drama, now we brought the peoples who suddenly are no longer anonymous but well-known personalities and there is in this relationship a little trouble between us and them, viewers and producers amid this idea , duh far it is going to be brave, when is he going to let go, etc.
Sophie Desjardin, euronews:
In the 80s, you wrote with Jean-Louis Missika a book called "The Queen of the house," the power that took the television in our societies, as an instrument ideal of democracy. This was before the invention of reality TV. What has changed?
Dominique Wolton, a specialist media:
It's not just drift reality. There we live in a competitive space images now. While reality TV has subsided in its most common form, but it takes today is true in more dramaturgical forms, more expensive closer to the adventure, exploit and risk . There is something wrong if you want.
If the man has need that to test his relationship with nature and its relation to the physical effort, it will not. There are no more boundaries between private life and public life, the dangerous life and normal life and there, be careful there still has to introduce ethics.
Sophie Desjardin, euronews:
The victims of this accident were people, but not just any. Champions who had nothing more to prove in theory. Should we go further in making the hero?
Dominique Wolton, a specialist media:
Yes, it's a very good question. I think to value individuals, regardless of the field, are able to make a destiny, to get out, to be a lesson for the emancipation of millions of people, that, I think it's great. But on condition that remains within limits which are the limits of life of an ordinary life. That people put themselves at risk, which revives the spirit of adventure, why not, but there are no limits on the ability to stage individuals for disturbing situations. I think at this point, it is either self-regulation that will have to establish or regulation to say "listen, we can do a number of things," provided you do not get to risk of a deadly voyeurism.
Sophie Desjardin, euronews:
Media coverage is one of the second lives of athletes today, often favored. Do they have other alternatives?
Dominique Wolton, a specialist media:
In our society, wrongly, one recognizes that people who are known in the media or on the Internet. Well known to stay after a sports star, we enter that logic.
I understand that to continue to endure, they try to mediate, but after a while the iron law, the terrible law of media or peopolisation will eat and will destroy the values on which you have made .
I am not at all opposed to publicizing, a basic form of peopolisation, but against when it is the only value system of a society, something is wrong.
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