It combines some aspects of investigative journalism and explanatory reporting. Analytic journalism can be seen as a response to professionalized communication from powerful agents, information overload and growing complexity in a globalised world. It aims at creating evidence-based interpretations of reality, often confronting the dominant ways of understanding a specific phenomenon." https://www
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"Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities. As a term, critical theory has two meanings with different origins and histories: the first originated in sociology and the second originated in literary criticism, whereby it is used and applied as an umbrella term that can describe a theory founded upon critique; thus, the theorist Max Horkheimer described a theory as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them."." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
Full Definition of CRITICAL:
1
a : of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture : as (1) : relating to or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be expected; also : being or relating to an illness or condition involving danger of death (2) : relating to or being a state in which or a measurement or point at which some quality, property, or phenomenon suffers a definite change
b : crucial, decisive
c : indispensable, vital
d : being in or approaching a state of crisis
2
a : inclined to criticize severely and unfavorably
b : consisting of or involving criticism ; also : of or relating to the judgment of critics
c : exercising or involving careful judgment or judicious evaluation
d : including variant readings and scholarly emendations
3
a : of sufficient size to sustain a chain reaction —used of a mass of fissionable material
b : sustaining a nuclear chain reaction
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