Meaning and Definition of Chronic

Definition of chronic

The Chronicle is a literary work that tells a historical fact according to the chronological order in which it happened, this last being the distinguishing feature of the piece of art. If a narration prides itself on being a chronic and does not follow this sine qua non condition, it is not a true Chronicle.
General and traditionally, this mode is narrated in first or third person, by any person or contemporary witness to the event in question. In accordance with the characteristics of each writer, shows that the vast majority of the events of the Chronicles are reported in past, although in some cases you can speculate with the narration in present, almost in "real time".
The Chronicle, moreover, is one of the more traditional genres within the exercise of journalism. A journalist who boasts of such must know and to piacere handle this type of content, from the beginnings of the profession until today they are an integral and important part in any newspaper, newscast or means of information. For many experts, the first pieces of real journalism have been chronic. Excel in that sense the texts by the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers, travelers, and great sailors of antiquity. Thus, the Chronicles of Marco Polo marked a historical milestone. in hardly later times, the diaries of blogs of Cristóbal Colón first trip to America and, above all, the lengthy account of Pigafetta in the expedition of Magellan and Elcano are sublime journalistic Chronicles format.
In journalism, the Chronicles, have a precise classification, in yellow and white. And for all those who handle the common sense, and some knowledge of the genus differentiation will be the clearest, but same goes the clarification.
Referred to as yellow to those Chronicles that have or tell a fact from absolute subjectivism. For example, in the case of a traffic accident, the journalist, as well as the details inherent in the place, date and hour in which occurred the incident, will include the voice of any eyewitness, that will always be a common citizen, who occasionally or not, transited among the area and had to witness the event.
Meanwhile, white Chronicles present a more objective material and often called the voice of any subject that is specialized in dealing with.
Unlike that happens with other journalistic excellence by gender, as the news, the Chronicle, uses a language simple, personal, direct, subjective, admitting the use and abuse, if you like, of adjectives, something unthinkable in the construction of a story.
A concrete example of what a chronicle is the work written by the celebrated Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, baptized Chronicle of a death foretold, and that probably more than one will be read at school or at the Department of journalism, if it is the Vice of the profession.
Do they can be considered to the posts on modern blogs or sporadic comments on social networks such as Twitter or Facebook true Chronicles? The debate in terms of Web 2.0 has led to the need to apply the potential existence of a "journalism 2.0", in which any citizen of a foot is capable of becoming a fleeting journalist, with the possibility of "telling" or "report" absolute real-time. The simplicity and the near-absence of concrete the journalistic objectivity facilitates the adoption of this genre as the ideal element for occasional journalist describes a novelty from the keyboard on your laptop computer or cell phone touch screen. However, other experts disbelieve the possibility of "chronic 2.0", given that they postulate, in reality, it is a quite new gender and unprecedented in the history of communications, so it should have recourse to another literary figure. However, beyond the formal opinions, new technologies allow today the Chronicle to become a journalistic genre of great force, easily diffused and with the possibility of reaching many casual readers interested in contact form concrete and short at the same time, in any place and by means of immediate implementation.