Example of Journalism: The Commentary

Man is not only aware of the world and of life, but also of his own consciousness. We write to communicate thoughts and feelings, and we think or reflect on what others or ourselves express.

The man comments, by nature; analyzes and synthesizes everything that is presented to his understanding. We all comment, but not all do it to the same extent. Authentic commentary requires discipline, method and technique, as far as the difficulty of the subject allows.

The commentator interprets an issue, placing it in its proper dimensions, and suggests what is convenient, so that it improves its quality.

The good commentator must possess the following characteristics:
a) Objectivity, to pass judgment without mixing passions, or accepting slogans outside the intrinsic value of what is being discussed.
b) Sharpness, to penetrate with intelligence ^ differentiate the important from the inconsequential.
c) Weighted criteria, to praise and censure when necessary.

Comment example:

It is convenient to clarify some of what has been established, by means of the transcription of the comment that F. Díaz Romero wrote, in Excelsior, of the exhibition "One Hundred Works of Tamayo," inaugurated on November 27 in the town of Paris.

"The exhibition" One Hundred Works of Tamayo "was inaugurated today at the Museum of Modern Art in the town of Paris, and constitutes a great event in the art world and a great success for painting Mexican.

"One of the most important exhibits that has been presented in this museum," said Jacques Lassaigne, the museum's chief curator.
A hundred works by Rufino Tamayo, made in the last fifteen years, show the enormous value of this Mexican painter, who he lived in Paris for several years and he said, moved: "It is a great satisfaction for me that Paris receives my works, and that it has been so magnificently installed. "
"It is satisfactory to note that one of the agreements of the Franco-Mexican Cultural and Technical Mixed Commission that meets every two years, has given as the result of this exhibition by the painter Rufino Tamayo, in the Museum of Modern Art ", said the Mexican ambassador in Paris, Silvio Zavala, who inaugurated this exposition.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Bcrnard Destremeau, represented the French government and Minister Sauvagnargues, who could not attend because a council of ministers was held at that time.

Destremeau congratulated Tamayo for this great work, which Paris welcomes as he deserves.

Many other Mexican, French and Latin American characters attended the event.

The president of the Paris municipal council, Ivés Milhoud, expressed his great admiration for Tamayo's art.

The same did ambassadors and heads of diplomatic mission in Paris, who highlighted the high dominance that in that expression, many times telluric, of pre-Columbian inspiration and modern realization, which represent those hundred works by Tamayo, some made in Paris, from where it came in 1962.
It is rare and it will not be easy to repeat it, to find so many of the most beautiful fabrics by Tamayo, gathered in an exhibition.

50 percent of the museums and private collections come from Mexico, which at the wish of President Echeverría, the Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Ministry of Public Education, through the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature and the National Museum of Modern Art, has wanted to show the degree of painting Mexican. The others come from the United States, Canada, France and Spain.