Big Brother Vip 7: Signorini’s outburst and Mediaset’s big mistake

To better understand what happened during the last episode of Big Brother VIP, the one that saw the conductor Alfonso Signorini scold the vipponi for their outbursts of anger and their indiscipline at the urging of Pier Silvio Berlusconi, who asked and obtained that the episode aired on March 2 on Canale 5 be canceled both by palimpsest of La5 that from the archives of Mediaset Infinity, we must start from captivity. In fact, captivity hurts. It applies to the animal kingdom, but also to the human one. We realized this during the first and second lockdowns, when we were confined to the house bombarding ourselves with television series and some days we felt like we couldn’t handle it, often unloading our nervousness on those close to us. Starting from this assumption, allowing a group of people to remain confined inside a house filmed 24 hours a day by cameras for the beauty of seven months is not only dangerous, but also recklessabove all because television has its own rules, and to keep the public’s attention focused on that house, it is logical to expect that television to use all the means at its disposal to make people talk, to discuss, to scandalize.

It is too easy now for the publisher to distance himself from the Big Brother VIP and that the landlord admits that the vipponi have crossed the line – which is very true, but certainly not since the March 2 episode, but for at least two months – because it is very clear that the problem in this case is upstream. Unfortunately, the Canale 5 reality show rests on the wrong foundationsboth because it is really crazy to unravel and unravel a format born to live in a limited interval of time in order to guarantee the company good advertising investments and because it is clear that the authors underestimate the psychic balance of the competitors who, however receive a fee for being there, they are still forced to confront each other within four walls without television, without books and without newspapers like animals in a cage. The problem, therefore, is not so much the fact that the Vipponi swear 24 hours a day developing a basic aggression that any creature raised in captivity would bring out, but the fact that it was the publisher himself who allowed a group of people choices certainly not for their sensitivity to lock themselves inside a house for an excessively long period of time.

So the solution would be simple: if really Big Brother VIP it must be, that it lasts 100 days as from the beginning, a lawful and fair duration, and that the focus is on a different cast. Which doesn’t mean taking intellectuals who read Emily Dickinson, but at least people sane enough to recognize that to spray an audience with vulgar rants when you have neither a subject to discuss nor the ability to recognize when you go overboard is childish and harmful, for them and for those who follow them from home. As we write, however, it seems to us that this prayer is in vain, because nowadays it seems to always and only be the law of profit that governs, especially for a television that is increasingly poor and increasingly deprived of the million-dollar budgets that Alfonso Signorini also recently spoke about. If we want things to change, though, it is logical to expect a general rethinking of the operation by Mediaset, because you can’t expect to have full advertising sales and a contentious cast but without excesses for the beauty of seven months.

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