Comment is free, but the facts are sacred

 

Author:ZhangJiahui(Lucas)

Chinese media are state-owned rather than private, and print media, radio and television are actually controlled by the Party and the government. To take the simplest example, almost all channels broadcast rigourous and serious news broadcasts advocating the country's political line on time at 7 p.m. every night. Major newspapers are also writing about the plans and measures of the Party and the state. All these show that on the one hand, China's media are instrumentalised as a way to publicise the national system, which is exactly in line with the model under the Soviet communist concept. Although the dominance of today's Chinese media is still in traditional media, more and more people begin to pay attention to news and the situation from the field of new media, but China's new media still has a certain tendency of the party and the government. According to the Statistical Report on the Development of China's Internet Network, as of December 2015, the number of Internet users in China had reached 688 million, and the Internet penetration rate was 50.3%; the number of mobile Internet users had reached 620 million, accounting for 90.1%, the coverage of wireless networks had increased significantly, and the Wi-Fi utilisation rate of netizens Reached 91.8%. The data shows that half of the Chinese have connected to the Internet, and the growth rate of the number of netizens has increased. As a new media, the functions of network media include almost all the functions of print media, radio and television, movies and other media, and produce many new functions. This Internet era is full of unknowns and possibilities. The existing news publicity system is increasingly showing that it lags behind the further development of democracy and the rule of law. The national government has to pay attention to this new media, keep up with the general trend, and adjust and innovate theory and practice.

 In the Four Theories of the Media, it is mentioned that "the theory of freedom supremacy is often only used to decorate the facade, and most of the government practises behind it is authoritarianism." AUTHORITARIAN PRACTISES CAN BE CLEARLY SEEN IN CHINA'S NETWORK MEDIA. The general public is considered to be politically ignorant, so the media targeting this social class should be closely monitored, because it may provoke mass riots and may cause the public to care about things that they are unable to understand or have no direct responsibility. According to the 2015 survey data, the proportion of netizens aged 10-39 in China is 75.1%. At the level of education, the proportion of netizens with junior and senior high school/technical secondary school education accounts for 37.4% and 29.2% respectively. Compared with the end of 2014, the proportion of people with primary school and below has increased by 2.6 percentage points, and Chinese netizens continue to spread to people with low education. Some so-called "public intellectuals" wantonly publicise their views and opinions on Weibo and WeChat platforms, deliberately distorting some truths to attract the attention of netizens. The number of people with low education in China accounts for a large number. Due to their weak ability to distinguish right from wrong, they are very easy to be misled by online "opinion leaders". From this point of view, the strict implementation of China's censorship system does not need to be criticised too much.

 In our country, the media is neither as closed as North Korea nor as open as the United States. It is in the centre. A few years ago, there was a popular article on the Internet comparing China and the United States. Two of them were as follows: "The mission of American public intellectuals is to criticise the government, and Chinese public intellectuals take it as their mission to praise the government; the most powerful intellectuals who criticise the government in the United States won awards, and the most powerful intellectuals in China praise the government. Award. " Although the words are much exaggerated and the praise and disapproval are obvious, it is not unreasonable. Although "multiple principles can and often be applied under each system", the concept of mass media adopted by countries under different ideologies is still biased in two different directions. Some scholars say that freedom of the press is not absolute, but subject to many restrictions. In our country, freedom of speech has boundaries. Netizens express their views on Internet platforms, but they will be subject to national network censorship and supervision. And with the widespread development of social media, we can foresee that this censorship system will be stricter.