{"id":46156,"date":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46156"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:34:52","slug":"editorial-ruedas-de-prensa-press-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/editorial-ruedas-de-prensa-press-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Ruedas de prensa \/ Press conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autor:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 254<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Desde hace un tiempo ha venido extendi&eacute;ndose entre las instituciones art&iacute;sticas la costumbre de celebrar ruedas de prensa para promocionar cualquiera de sus iniciativas, significativas o no, en un intento a veces ingenuo de alcanzar una gran cobertura informativa. Convocar a muchos medios a la vez est&aacute; de moda y ya todos imitan en este sentido a los organismos oficiales. Museos, centros de arte, ferias, bienales e incluso galer&iacute;as aspiran mediante esta estrategia a ver reflejada su actividad en uno o varios medios de comunicaci&oacute;n. Y, por supuesto, se espera que ese \u00abreflejo\u00bb sea elogioso y carezca del menor juicio cr&iacute;tico.<\/p>\n<p>Es as&iacute; que estos agentes, p&uacute;blicos o privados, no han conseguido comprender el particular car&aacute;cter comunicativo de la rueda de prensa, confundi&eacute;ndola con un acto propagand&iacute;stico, con un suced&aacute;neo de la pura autopromoci&oacute;n comercial. En muchas ocasiones, nos encontramos en estos \u00abeventos\u00bb con una informaci&oacute;n poco fiable o carente de inter&eacute;s para la opini&oacute;n p&uacute;blica e incluso para la prensa especializada. En el peor de los casos, el convocante pretende reunir en una rueda de prensa a los medios de comunicaci&oacute;n despu&eacute;s de haber dado con antelaci&oacute;n la primicia informativa, es decir, la \u00abexclusiva\u00bb, a un determinado medio informativo. Esta es una forma de proceder que est&aacute;n cultivando ciertas instituciones art&iacute;sticas espa&ntilde;olas, y que en lugar de favorecer su imagen p&uacute;blica, la desacredita y despierta la animadversi&oacute;n de los medios convocados como comparsas.<\/p>\n<p>Otro aspecto de esa confusi&oacute;n en torno al sentido de una rueda de prensa es la participaci&oacute;n en la misma, del lado de la audiencia, del personal de la instituci&oacute;n convocante o de un p&uacute;blico invitado no profesional que se lanza a aplaudir al finalizar la intervenci&oacute;n de los organizadores. Esta absurda actitud de aplaudir en una rueda de prensa ha llegado a contagiar a veces incluso a periodistas y cr&iacute;ticos, que se ven sumidos tambi&eacute;n en esa confusi&oacute;n sobre el sentido de este tipo de reuniones, ideadas siempre para que la prensa examine y cuestione con ecuanimidad la actividad que se le presenta y explica.<\/p>\n<p>Desde hace unos pocos a&ntilde;os venimos oyendo necios aplausos en las ruedas de prensa convocadas por museos e instituciones culturales, no solo en Espa&ntilde;a. Y en los &uacute;ltimos tiempos se nos viene tambi&eacute;n convocando a los medios a in&uacute;tiles ruedas de prensa para comunicarnos cosas de las que ya han sido informados determinadas publicaciones, que de inmediato han dado a conocer la primicia al gran p&uacute;blico. &iquest;Para qu&eacute;, por ejemplo, convoca el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof&iacute;a una rueda de prensa para explicar las nuevas directrices relacionadas con los fondos del centro si ya el director del mismo las explic&oacute; con lujo de detalles a un medio en exclusiva? Es en especial evidente que no tiene sentido convocar a medios especializados a una rueda de prensa en la que se nos repetir&aacute; lo que ya hemos le&iacute;do en un medio generalista. Tambi&eacute;n resulta obvio que esta actitud vulnera la imparcialidad informativa a la que est&aacute; obligada una instituci&oacute;n p&uacute;blica como es un Museo Nacional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For some time now, a phenomenon has been spreading among art institutions which now tend to organise press conferences to promote their initiatives, regardless of their relevance, in a somewhat naive attempt to achieve major coverage in the news. Their m.o. involves gathering as many journalists as possible, therefore, imitating the methods used by official organisms. Museums, art centres, fairs, biennials and, even, galleries hope to see one or a few media pick up on their activities thanks to this strategy. Obviously, they also hope that the news items praise their event with the least critical judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, these agents, from the private and public spheres, have not grasped the particular communicative nature of the press conference, and often confuse it with an advertising event, a by-product of pure commercial self-promotion. Quite frequently, these \u00abevents\u00bb feature information that is hardly reliable or even lacking in all interest for the public opinion and even for the specialised press. In the worst cases, the organiser organises a press conference for the media after releasing the <em>scoop<\/em>&#8211; in other words, the \u00abexclusive\u00bb- to a specific medium. This method is being favoured by certain Spanish art institutions and, instead of benefiting their public image, it is discrediting them and creating hostility among the media summoned as mere puppets.<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of the confusion surrounding the press conference appears in the shape of the attendance: the general audience, the staff of the organising institution or the non-professional public, which burst into applause when the organisers have finished their speeches. That absurd notion of clapping during a press conference has even spread among journalists and critics, who remain baffled by this type of meetings, designed solely for the press to impartially examine and question the activity presented and explained to them.<\/p>\n<p>For some years now, this foolish applause has been catching on in press conferences organised by museums or cultural institutions, not only in Spain. Recently, the media has also started to be summoned at useless press conferences in which we are informed of things that have already been communicated to certain publications, which immediately release the scoop to the general public. For instance, why did the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof&iacute;a bother to organise a press conference to clarify the new guidelines for the centre&#8217;s collection if the director already explained them in full detail exclusively to one medium? It is pointless to summon the specialised media to attend a press conference in which we are going to hear things that we have already read about in the general press. This attitude also clearly infringes the informative impartiality demanded of a public institution like a National Museum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Translation: Laura F. 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