Recently, many friends Amway American film "Washington Post" tells the story of the newspaper's people taking great risks and reporting that the United States has fallen into the quagmire of the Vietnam War.
Today, neither the "Washington Post" nor the "Chinese Business Daily" can escape the fate of being forced into the corner of history by the information revolution. From Europe to the United States, from the West to the East, newspapers are closed, and newspapers cease to be published. News of people biting dogs.
With the evolution of the times, the trend of replacing old things with new things and old media with new media cannot be rebelled, but the social functions carried by news media will not be dispelled. Newspapers ceased publication, Twitter and Weibo appeared. If they disappear one day, there will inevitably be other media for information dissemination.
In the final analysis, information exchange and information-based news, as an important part of a civilized society and an aspect of the spiritual needs of modern people, have the necessity and inevitability of their existence.
People are not sages, and no one can fault. I am afraid that no one will disagree, unless it is in Hitler's time. And for more complex and huge social organizations, political parties, and governments in charge of one country and one place, the probability of making mistakes may be much higher than that of individuals.
Therefore, whether in the United States or China, the role of the media as a supervisory government power is recognized to varying degrees, although at different time and space nodes, coupled with the cognitive differences at the apex of power, the degree of recognition of this role is sometimes high and sometimes low.
The problem is that even if the political party or government knows that media supervision is fundamentally beneficial to governance and management, when it comes to specific interests, the relationship between the supervisor and the supervised is the same as the relationship between the ruler and the governed, and there are partial interests. Ask for difference, and then form confrontation.
Even in the United States, which advertises and realizes democracy and freedom to a certain extent, the gain of freedom has never fallen from the sky.
In the movie, reporters from the "New York Times" and "Washington Post", in order to pursue the truth, expose the shady that is in the interests of the majority of the people. They risked antagonizing the administrators of this country and the most powerful people in the United States of America. risks of.
The film said that the most powerful way to protect the freedom of the press is to publish. The logic of this judgment is that in the game between freedom of the press and strong rights and interests, if you go further, he will take a step back, and if you take a step back, he will take a step forward. If you don’t hold your ground, fight, or say no bravely, you will inevitably be lowered the bottom line.
The supervised naturally do not want to be supervised, so they will do everything they can to counter the supervisors, such as news censorship, such as coercion and lure, Nixon’s threats to the New York Times and the Washington Post are naked, if you report on Vietnam War news When the media yields and power triumphs, then the history of the Watergate incident is likely to be rewritten.
Therefore, no matter what, the path to pursuing freedom of the press is full of thorns. A few years ago, they traversed through numerous thorns and thorns, and they got the relatively wide discourse space now. And our news field, like our country and people, is still hacking through the road to realize more natural rights such as food and clothing. .
If we do more now, the future will be easier; if we do more, our children and grandchildren will do less.
Nowadays, the media environment is in desperation. As journalists who maintain the functions of the media, they are trapped in the double pressure of economic distress and disillusionment, and escape has become the norm. They let go of their ideals, and for the sake of their own "right path" in the real society beyond the ideals they owe, they kept silent about being a reporter. There are also some people who try to find another way to become lawyers, scholars, and even businessmen, in order to achieve the same goal by different paths, and be people who are beneficial to social progress.
In a society, there are always people who try to get to the top of power and enjoy the glory that tens of thousands of people admire; there are people who look forward to being rich, creating material, and enjoying material; but there are always people with a broad mind and compassionate heart, trying to promote society Progress as a concrete footnote for the realization of the value of life.
Reporters from the Washington Post and from the China Business Daily, many of them take journalists as their specific professions, perform news supervision duties, promote social progress more or less, and even delay the advent of darkness.
Such people always exist and will always exist. Even at this time Venus is drooping.
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