Journalistic criticism

The journalistic criticism is a signed article that is part of the mixed genre, in which a reasoned value judgment is expressed on any production in the field of art and culture in general. Although it is a text in which opinion fundamentally prevails, it must also include information outside of the behavior emitted by the critic. This must be based, as far as possible, on solid, substantiated and properly proven data and arguments. That is why we say that in addition to the genre of opinion, criticism has a great resemblance to analysis. The critique generally contains an expository part that may even be an initial file with the objective details.

Types

Criticism encompasses any cultural or artistic manifestation that can be judged and criticized. This definition is becoming broader, since new subgenres are created over time. The most innovative are television and gastronomic criticism. The most important types of criticism are the following:

• Literary criticism
• Theatrical criticism
• Film critic
• Artistic criticism
• Television critic
• Musical criticism
• Dance critic
• Critic taurine
• Gastronomic criticism
• Sports criticism

The Critic

The person in charge of carrying out a journalistic criticism must be demanding with himself in terms of his professional ethics. He cannot be influenced by personal weaknesses when making his interpretation and judgment on the artistic work, neither by excess nor by defect.

His attitude should be based on fairness and respect for what he judges, even if he expresses the shortcomings and defects that he considers to be present. It must be positive, highlighting the qualities of what it judges in the first place and then referring to the shortcomings and negative evaluations, and it must also support and prove what it affirms, without falling into dogmatism or totalitarian opinion.

In each topic covered, a great specialization of the journalist in the subject matter is essential. The critic is a specialist in the subjects that he prosecutes. For example: the television program, where subliminal messages emanate outside the legal framework.

Media in which it is presented

In its origins, journalistic criticism was a genre of the daily written press. But, later, the pages of the magazines dedicated to culture and entertainment, as well as in the weekly cultural supplements, are the spaces where criticism is developed with greater intensity. With the appearance of television and radio, spaces for specialized criticism have emerged in some of the subgenres (film, music, videogames), which enjoy great prestige and are often the greatest exponent of that subgenre. The Internet revolution has also reached this point, creating a multitude of portals that practice specialized criticism, although in many of them it is more of a "pseudo-criticism" than a real journalistic criticism.