Dues maneres de narrar la realitat a la ràdio

Abstract

As has been evident from classical Greece up to and including the Anglo-Saxon journalistic and literary uadition, there are two ways to narrate depending on the point of view fi-om which a story is told: a first type of narration which is recounted by the voice of a narrator and another which simply shows or demonstrates. Basing himselfon this traditton. the British television critic Lohn Comer applies this distinction to the television news to argue that in this medium, narration which shows is more appropriate that that which tells. The following article also algues that one can discern these two types of narration in radio news broadcasts. By means of several different examples, it is demonstrated that on radio there are news stories which only use the words of the natratot to report on events - recounted narration - and, on the other hand, news stories in which the voice of the narrator is secondary to other sounds recorded directly from reality - demonstrated narration. However, we observe that recounted narration predominates in a large percentage of the cases on the radio and that demonstrated narration is only the exception on news programs, a situation which demonstrates that the auditory resources of the medium are undervalued when constructing narratives about real events.