The Crisis And Possibility Of Objectivity

In the press, the entertainment trend and the commercialization on the news hurt the citizens' trust of objectivity in Journalism. At the same time, in the academia, the postmodernism deconstructed the foundation on philosophy, which leads the pursuit of objectivity turning hard. Admittedly, the news plays an important role in a democratic society, so we have to confront the crisis of objectivity in Journalism. The extinction and development of Journalism are based on the objectivity. How to revolve the crisis of objectivity? Focusing on the origin of this crisis, through the Lens of the Chinese Journalist Tradition, the author distinguished the Chinese journalism from the western journalism to analyze the specificity in China. For finding some possible solutions, the author went back to the Chinese journalism history and revisited the era when the objectivity in journalism present itself in china.The main factors hurt the objectivity in journalism including: independence, market economy and the professionalism. The author takes the Observer Weekly as an excellent example to tell us how to be objective. During 1946-1949, the press was filled of Party newspapers which attack their enemies neglecting the facts. The Observer Weekly which started in 1946 tried many ways to rebuilt the objectivity, gained the image of independence, non-party and objectivity in public. The author hopes to tackle the problem puzzling us today by revisiting the Observer Weekly through the lens of the Chinese Journalist Tradition...