In the past few days, the behavior of "The Paper" reporters eating human blood buns has aroused anger among netizens.
On January 30, "The Paper" reporter Wang Le wrote an article titled "10 years ago, 14-year-old she sent her family to prison for sexual assault and other charges, and then disappeared..." news quickly became popular on the Internet. The reading volume is up to several million.
Taking such a title makes it as if Tang Lanlan is the culprit.
From the title to the content of this article, the readers are hinted between the lines: Tang Lanlan framed the whole family.
Looking back at the "Washington Post", I understand what a real media person is!
Let's talk about the movie first, and then come back to talk about the events of The Paper.
"Washington Post" has been nominated for Best Picture Oscar not long ago. It is directed by Steven Spielberg, who has won 2 Oscars for Best Director, and is directed by Tom Hanks and "Aunt May" Meryl. Starring Streep.
Among them, Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor twice, Meryl Streep won the Oscar for Best Actress twice, and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress once.
The film tells a real historical event: the Pentagon file incident.
According to Baidu Encyclopedia, the Vietnam War is the most unpopular war in American history. The anti-Vietnam War actions in American society have been developing and growing, and anti-war demonstrations have erupted in major cities.
In 1965, the Secretary of Defense knew that the United States could not win the Vietnam War. However, the President of the United States chose to deceive Congress and the people.
70% of the reason was to escape the shame of America's defeat. They knew that they couldn't win, and sent the soldiers to die.
The problem is that the Congress and the people are kept in the dark.
However, conscientious media men like Ellsberg, The New York Times, and The Washington Post stepped forward.
Ellsberg was originally an employee of the Pentagon, serving as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
After a field trip to Vietnam, he completely changed his consistent view of war.
He began to make anti-war speeches and persuaded the anti-war members of Congress to challenge the Nixon administration to end the Vietnam War as soon as possible.
But Ellsberg was frustrated one after another because it was impossible for these parliamentarians to bet on their political future.
Ellsberg tried to make the United States end the Vietnam War in a relatively mild manner, but failed, so he had to take a radical approach.
As a result, he leaked a state secret document-a research report by the Secretary of Defense to the New York Times.
On June 13, 1971, the "New York Times" published the news of "Vietnam Archives: The Pentagon's Research Tracing, How the United States Was Deeper and Deeper in the Past 30 Years".
According to the news, the U.S. government used deceived and deceived the public in the early days of the Vietnam War to gain people's support for the Vietnam War, and these methods have become commonplace for the government in the future.
This news is only part of a research report of thousands of pages. The complete report will count how the White House lied about the Vietnam War in the past 30 years, from Truman (the 33rd President of the United States) to Eisenhower (34th) and Kennedy ( The 35th), Johnson (the 36th), and Nixon (the 37th) all lied and seriously misled the country.
The next day, the "New York Times" further exposed confidential documents, which led to the outbreak of anti-war demonstrations by American people and sweeping the country.
At the same time, a federal judge banned the New York Times from publishing classified documents related to the Vietnam War. This is the first time in American history that a court has banned the publication of newspapers.
"Washington Post" shouldered this arduous task. Editor-in-chief Ben Bradley (played by Tom Hanks) sent his subordinate Ben Bagdiken to find Ellsberg and saw the whole copy. File and brought it back to the newspaper.
There are 47 volumes of this document, and Ellsberg comes out one point at a time, and it took several months to copy it.
The legal counsel said: publishing this document is a felony because a federal judge believes that publishing it will ruin the United States.
The editor-in-chief's response is: If you don't publish it, America will be ruined!
Colleagues are also very persuasive: to expose the secrets of the government for many years, we will be sentenced, and the "Washington Post" will no longer exist.
The editor-in-chief said:
"If we live in a world where the government decides what we should publish, our Washington Post will no longer exist.
"We have this document. If we don't post it," everyone will eventually find the table. What does it look like? We lost, this country lost, Nixon won.
"The only way to defend publishing rights is to publish itself!"
The owner of the newspaper (Meryl Streep) made a strong ideological struggle day and night, and finally made a decision.
This group of people with conscience, risking being blocked, the newspaper going bankrupt, the risk of being sentenced, and even the risk of losing their lives, published documents.
After that, the Supreme Court held a hearing to decide the case of publishing confidential documents.
Just when everyone thought they would be sentenced, they won the lawsuit by a 6:3 vote and were acquitted.
Because the court believed that instead of treason, this group of people saved the lives of countless soldiers, saved thousands of families, and saved a country!
Of course, this will also benefit from the separation of powers in the United States. The government, Congress, and the courts check and balance each other, and the court's judgments will not be affected by outside influences.
After the incident, the judge told the reporter of The Washington Post: The founding fathers gave the necessary protection system to media freedom in order for the media to play an important role in our democracy. The media should serve the ruled, not the ruler.
There are many movies with similar themes, such as "Focus" and "Nightcrawler".
For the sake of its conscience, the "Washington Post" did not hesitate to bet everything against the country.
For the sake of conscience, the "Focus" team of the Boston Globe has gone through untold hardships to restore a truth, thereby exposing the shady scene of the church's sexual assault on children.
The reporters in "Nightcrawler" embarked on a crime of no return for a bloodier, more explosive, and more eye-catching news scene.
"The Paper" reporter Wang Le pushed a young girl into the dark abyss again in order to gain the attention of others...
All this started on October 3, 2008, when Tang Lanlan, who was only 14 years old, wrote a letter to the police in Longzhen, Wudalianchi City, Heilongjiang Province, stating that he had been arrested by his father, grandfather, uncle, uncle, teacher, and villager since he was 7 years old. More than ten people including the director and neighbors raped and gang-raped it for 7 years.
At the end of the month, 16 people in the village were arrested within 3 days. Four years later, 11 people, including their parents, were sentenced for rape and prostitution. Their parents were also convicted of forced prostitution.
The judicial officers spent four years investigating and collecting evidence and arresting the suspect. The whole case has been concluded, and Tang Lanlan has finally started a new life.
However, Wang Le did not interview the prisoner for crimes, did not investigate whether the police had extorted a confession, did not suspect whether the court had paid bribes, but attributed the mistake to the most unlikely person—the victim.
With her own imagination, she privately convicted Tang Lanlan and caused secondary harm to the victim.
She wrote in the article:
At the age of 14, Tang Lanlan (a pseudonym), who was in the first year of junior high school, sent the whole family to prison.
The family members involved in the case are still complaining, and they are waiting for Tang Lanlan to appear.
And where did Tang Yu (Tang Lanlan) go?
In just three sentences, the victim becomes the perpetrator.
In her opinion, Tang Lanlan framed the whole family and then disappeared from the world.
Therefore, she called on netizens to "look for Tang Lanlan" and even posted Tang Lanlan's household registration information at the end of the article.
She is a victim and wants to start a new life incognito. Why do you appeal to netizens to find her?
If reporters can expose the victim's information at will, who would dare to tell about their victimization experience in the future?
This girl who had spent 10 years finally crawling out of the border of hell and regaining a new life, the reporter took her back to her original form with a few words.
As netizens said: Have you considered Tang Lanlan's feelings?
What is the fact? The fact is that Tang Lanlan is indeed the victim, and those who were arrested back then deserved the crime.
According to Wudalianchi Municipal Committee’s response to the case, we can extract the following information:
1. The Public Security Bureau found out all the facts of the crimes and arrested all the persons involved in the case.
2. The second instance upheld the original verdict in accordance with the law.
3. Tang Lanlan's mother connected criminals with each other in an attempt to reverse the case.
4. Two criminals were arrested again for prostitution after being released from prison.
5. Some media take out of context, confuse the audience, and make false hype.
Spread the rumors with a mouth, refute the rumors and run off their legs.
The investigation results of the police and the court over the past four years are not as rigorous as an article written by you?
As a reporter, you judged that the fact that someone was hurt for 7 years is false just because you feel "unreasonable"?
We are always saying "don't believe in rumors, don't spread rumors", but ordinary netizens don't know which rumors are and which are not.
It is not the mass netizens who can truly "believe rumors and not spread rumors," but the media.
If they tell lies, there will be more rumors; if they tell the truth, there will be fewer rumors.
Whether there are rumors in this world is in the hands of the media.
What reporters and public figures say will affect the thinking of countless people.
The U.S. government deceived the people and misled hundreds of millions of people. The Washington Post published classified documents, but other newspapers followed suit.
A small article in The Paper, as a result, made a group of netizens lose their judgment, because an article that was "not authoritative and did not verify the authenticity" suspected the case of "four-year investigation and two trials". Authenticity, began to look for doubts.
In fact, these are no doubts. This is because the reporter wrote part of it, but some parts of it were deliberately omitted.
Even other media were blinded by the truth.
The "Beijing News" published a title of "The Girl Who Was Sexually Assaulted" by the Whole Family.
Isn't Lost Link waiting for criminals to retaliate?
"Phoenix News" even has a strange logic: you have no mental disorders, you are ashamed to say that you have been sexually assaulted?
Netizens’ erroneous remarks, media’s erroneous reports, everything comes from that piece of news. That news is the root of all evil.
Although the Wudalianchi Municipal Law Commission rejected the rumors, the fact that the victims were hurt and the netizens were misled can no longer be changed.
The barriers to employment for media professionals are too low. If you make up a piece of news, they may follow the trend and write a similar article. Moreover, fake news will gradually be taken seriously by people after being repeated over and over again.
On January 4, 2016, a number of media released fake news about "an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred in Jiujiang, Jiangxi";
On March 15, the false news that "the talented woman from Peking University returned to her hometown to start her own business and gave up white-collar workers to choose express delivery" spread across the country;
On October 6, the post "Women of this company queues up every morning, the boss kisses in turn" posts that blasted Weibo and Moments were also confirmed to be untrue...
No matter how small a mistake, multiplying 1.3 billion is a big mistake; no matter how small a lie is, multiplying 1.3 billion is a big lie.
It takes 4 years for judicial personnel to investigate and collect evidence and arrest suspects. It takes 10 years for Tang Lanlan to start a new life, and it only takes a moment to destroy all of this.
The "The Paper" reporters selectively ignored the ironclad evidence, but went to the corners and imagined the most unlikely situation out of thin air, and then publicly published it on the Internet, thereby misleading millions of netizens; "The Beijing News" and "Phoenix News" have nothing to do. I have no opinion and follow the trend to publish rumors, making the rumors more and more, causing some netizens to believe it if they read too much.
In the "Washington Post", Ellsberg's approach was to go to the Vietnam battlefield for field trips and obtain state secret documents. Only then did he dare to call on everyone to fight against the war.
Many times people don't know what the truth is, especially media people, they need to find evidence before expressing their opinions.
Therefore, media professionals need not only conscience, but also kindness, fairness, objectivity, and responsibility to ensure that the news they publish is true, credible, neutral, and comprehensive.
I remembered what Yang Jisheng, a senior reporter from Xinhua News Agency, knew about reporters. This passage is very long. I have extracted a part of it. Friends who are interested can search for the full text on the Internet:
This is a despicable profession. This profession can confuse right from wrong, reverse black and white, create big lies, and deceive hundreds of millions of audiences.
This is a noble profession. This profession can pinpoint current malpractices, expose darkness, lash out evil, serve the people, and shoulder the heavy responsibility of social conscience.
Whether it is mean or noble depends on the practitioner's own conscience, personality and value orientation.
A true professional journalist will choose sublime, sacred, profound, and dangerous, despise and stay away from meanness, mediocrity, shallowness, and comfort.
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