Example of Journalism: The Article

The article analyzes and evaluates the news; it is written with care by specialists. It deals with the most varied topics: scientific, philosophical, literary, and so on. It is generally approximately 600 words long. The good columnist expresses his opinions, as a contributor to a newspaper, on the various problems of the day — national and international ^ -, or on any other matter of your choice, in a cultured, clear, precise, accessible way, and with strict rectitude of judgment. Just as the editorial writer does, albeit briefly.
I note below the article "Language problems, confrontation in Mexico", by Agustín Yáñez, which appeared in Excelsior on December 7, 1974.
"The coincidence of resolutions adopted by the recent National Assembly of the Mexican Culture Seminar on the preservation of the language as the supreme cultural asset with those of the two Encuentros that, organized by the Mexican Academy, were held in Mexico the year past; On the other hand, unanimously thoughtful comments heard in recent trips to countries in the Caribbean and South America where both programs have been broadcast, induce us to remember and use them under the banner of the greatest cultural asset: that of our language, bearer of our most recondite mental notions, of our most hidden emotional motions and open declarations of the Will.

Motivably, the series of Encounters began with the key theme of every culture: language.
The vast ecumene of the language spoken by 260 million men was represented in its various confines, and expressive voices were sought in contrast, due to geographical, historical, political and sociological.
They shared in the dialogue, Dámaso Alonso, director of the Spanish Academy; Germán Arciniegas, from La Colombiana; Atil Dell Oro Maini, from Argentina; Aurelio Tió, from the Puerto Rican; Samuel Arguedas, from the Costa Rican. Due to fortuitous reasons, Emeterio Barcelón and Ángel Hidalgo, from the Philippine Academy, nor Arturo Uslar Pietri, from the Venezuelan, did not attend, guests, who had promised to attend.
A plethora of questions ran with lively, fluvial spontaneity, jumping from one to another, insistently surrounding them, widening them, rushing them:
- Does the language that has united us tend to divide us?
- Is the Spanish language in danger?
- Deficiencies in the General Dictionary of the Spanish Language.
- Is the language the work of the people, of the writers, of the academics? "Why do young people invent their own language?"
"What are the academies for?"
- How should the teaching of the Spanish language be?
The most general of the previous questions triggers the unity and diversity of languages, and the modern risks of Spanish speech. Here is the sum of the opinions of the participants:
- The dangers that threaten the language are many; but it has so much vitality that it can face them triumphantly for centuries. The imminent danger that we must contemplate with humor and pleasure is that of the growth of our lexicon, which life demands: nouns, scientific and technical words, verbs. (Dámaso Alonso.)
- More than separating us, the Spanish language, today as yesterday, unites us. (Germán Arciniegas.)
—In its fundamental structures, our language is one and the same, including those who use it throughout the width of the Spanish peninsula; of the Latin American nations, the Philippines and the Sephardic extremes. Of course there are words, idioms, expressive nuances, different syntactic forms not only from country to country, even regional, as in Spanish provinces or from north to south in Mexico; and even in social strata of the same city. Add, today, that not only Spanish, but all the living languages ​​of the world are used as a weapon of protest, that the distort, thereby trying to proclaim the desire of unprecedented media, which imply a core change of expression linguistics. (Agustín Yáñez.)
Not only the youth of today, but hermetic groups of all times try to speak exclusive languages supposedly mysterious' or pedantic / None is risk, because in addition to being sectoral, they transience.
The language is born from the people, undergoes infiltration, finds fixation in the sanction of writers, speakers, politicians, men of various professions. The problem would not exist if it were a matter of a single nationality; But when it is dispersed speech in twenty towns, diversified in multiple regions, under a flood of expressive needs, mainly sentimental, seemingly non-transferable from mind to mind, how must the archaic language be subdued to serve our present requirements, personal? "