An Analysis Of The Writing Method Of The Early "People's Daily" Editorial

The early "People's Daily" was born in the unique historical period on the eve of liberation and the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.Its editorial also formed a set of unique writing methods.The research on the editorial writing method of "People's Daily" in this period has important theoretical significance for helping us to sort out the development history of China's editorial,grasp the writing method of China's editorial,and perfect the news commentary with Chinese characteristics.At the same time,it also helps to carry forward the fine tradition of editorial writing in the party newspaper,and has certain practical significance for the development of news commentary.Therefore,this article will use sampling,text analysis,and literature analysis to summarize the basic situation of the early "People's Daily" editorial on the premise of grasping the background of the era that before the liberation and the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China,study it's writing method from Three lengths of topic selection method,argumentation method and reasoning method,and explore the deep historical reasons behind it.This essay finds that,while adhering to the basic position of advocating for the party and the basic principles of adhering to party spirit,the early editorials of the "People 's Daily" mainly selected objects from a height related to the development of the country,Distributed on hard topics such as politics,economics,and international diplomacy.There are fewer soft topics related to social life.In terms of argumentation,the early "People's Daily" editorials mainly used politics as the scale of value judgments,with a highmindedness,using positive comments as the main and negative comments as supplement.In reasoning,the early editorials of People's Daily followed political logic for argumentation,with more theoretical arguments and macro arguments,less narrative arguments and micro arguments,and the overall language showed the main features of solemnity,concise,obvious emotional color,and commanding tone.The editorial writing method in a certain period is regulated and dominated by the spirit of the times,which is the epitome of the spirit of the times.Regardless of the topic selection,argumentation method,or argumentation method,the early "People's Daily" editorial embodied the distinctive characteristics of the times,both deserve our inheritance and aspects that we should abandon.Therefore,in order to inherit and surpass the writing method of the early "People's Daily" editorial,the author proposes the following ideas: at the level of topic selection,broadening the source and perspective of topic selection,noticing the proper proportion of hard topics and soft topics;in terms of argumentation,matching the political scale and the human scale,continue to promote the positive propaganda-based journalism policy,and pay attention to the proper proportion of negative comments;in the reasoning method,the use of political reasons should be appropriately reduced to have the proper proportion of theoretical and factual arguments.At the same time,we must also have the proper proportion of macro-narrative and micro-narrative in the argument,and use the lively and vivid language to reasoning.