Home / China / Opinion Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
News is not entertainment
Adjust font size:

News loaded with entertainment betrays the principles of journalism and hurts the society, says an article in China Youth Daily. Excerpts:

As scholar Shi Tongyu said, news-as-entertainment has vitiated news circles in China.

Entertainment and news have different functions. News focuses on objective, true and responsible reporting to speedily communicate to society what has happened. Entertainment tries to make people laugh and relax.

In recent years, some media outlets have succumbed to the temptation of attracting more audiences and readers by any and all means. As a result, they have begun to overlook journalistic principles and blindly seek sensational stories based on exaggeration or even fabrication.

What these media outlets want is sensationalism, not facts or information. As long as the eyeballs of readers can be snagged, page hits of websites boosted, and viewing rates of TV programs raised, facts can be distorted. For the masses who depend on these media outlets to get news, they have to make do with what is doled out; the staff of these media are not professional, and it is often hard to separate fact from fabrication.

The public is fooled by news-as-entertainment and this has consequences for society.

News-as-entertainment has already crept into all major areas of news reporting in China such as political and social, and at times even breaking news is entertainment. It's not unusual to see a reporter file a sensational investigative report without going to the news spot.

Only when the media develops a sense of being responsible to the reading public, society and the country, can media contribute to social transition in China.

The bottom line in news should be truth. Fabricating stories is akin to adding melamine to milk, thereby threatening public health.

(China Daily June 17, 2009)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read Bookmark and Share
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
主站蜘蛛池模板: 免费在线你懂的| china同性基友gay勾外卖| 精品一久久香蕉国产二月| 大奉打更人最新章节| 中文字幕专区高清在线观看| 日韩精品一卡二卡三卡四卡2021| 亚洲国产精品久久久天堂| 特级xxxxx欧美| 免费看又黄又无码的网站| 美女胸又大又黄又www的网站| 国产女人aaa级久久久级| jux662正在播放三浦惠理子| 成人片黄网站色大片免费观看app| 久久免费看黄a级毛片| 欧美黑人疯狂性受xxxxx喷水| 国产免费av片在线观看| 日本色图在线观看| 国产精品免费_区二区三区观看| 91精品视频免费| 夜夜揉揉日日人人| www日本在线观看| 成人h在线播放| 中文字幕第23页| 日本不卡一二三| 亚洲毛片免费观看| 色多多视频官网| 国产在线一区二区三区在线| 很黄很污的视频在线观看| 我要看a级毛片| 久久五月激情婷婷日韩| 日韩人妻精品一区二区三区视频| 亚洲一区二区三区在线| 欧美成人在线免费| 公和我做好爽添厨房| 羞羞答答www网址进入在线观看| 国产亚洲欧美在在线人成| 香蕉视频在线看| 国产成人精品999在线观看| 99久久久精品免费观看国产| 成人美女黄网站视频大全| 久久99精品九九九久久婷婷 |