In the wake of the increase in human interest news to the detriment of social interest news, this essay highlights the inadequacy of media information to the communicative needs of the democratic system. It tries to make explicit some of the contradictions between the needs of the democratic system and the outcome of the actual production of information in a market environment. He denounces not only the fact of turning media reality into a soap opera, but also the illegitimacy of the political power currently exercised by the media, and proposes that the information consumer should participate in the conception of the social reality proposed by the media. To this end, he proposes the need to diversify the range of information on offer and to define news of social interest. Finally, with the arrival of new technologies, he warns of the growing importance of new social mediators and points towards ideological consumption as a possible mode of social participation.