Red Chronicles: ways to do, ways to see

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect on a very much used category: the one of sensationalism in the red chronicle, specially the ones written on newspapers and magazines, from the end of the XIX or beginnings of the XX century until the 1980s. It is of special interest to observe certain tensions in which these accounts fall as well as to identify the problem of its continuity on the police narrative of the press nowadays, in which diverse mutations and continuing significance emerge. Therefore, a diachronic perspective has been chosen as it is possible to talk about traditional sensationalism or first sensationalism which characteristics lasted for many years in the Argentinean graphic press though many causes seem to have modified its present writing and function. Even though these accounts have ejected a special attraction on the readers, they have been strongly criticized with diverse arguments either by the intellectual area or the same journalistic area that this paper reports in one of the items. This paper is specially meant to understand a narrative that seems to have created from the beginnings of its publishing diverse readings not free of conflicts.