On Journalists Role Of Moral Consciousness

Journalists are the core elements of news transmission system. They take the responsibility of translating social objective facts into news information and spreading them to the social public, playing important roles in the society. As communication subject in the activities of spreading news, journalist plays an indispensible role in the information dissemination, public opinion guidance, supervision by public opinion, cultural inheritance and moral enlightenment. Journalists’ role of moral self-consciousness is significant to develope individual moral quality of journalists, improving the moral personality, realizing the news industry to serve the society and public, promoting social fairness and justice value pursuit, and optimizing the social ethical order.In this day and age, new media technology changes with each passing day, and great changes have taken place in communication environment. Popularization of news communication subject, diversity of the content and the diversification of carrier form shocks on the current communication ecology and public opinion pattern, also put forward new requirements on journalists’ role playing. Journalists are facing many problems and challenges in the moral practice. Therefore, journalists seeking for how to grasp the own role in the era of new media and social ethical expectation, solving the role of moral problems and difficulties in the practice of news spreading and cultivating journalists’ role of moral consciousness are of great theoretical significance and practical value.This paper puts the research about journalists’ role of moral consciousness in Marxist journalism, sociology, philosophy, ethics and ideological and political education theory horizon based on the Marxist news view, and combs the connotation, value, ideological resources, theoretical basis and the basic theory of journalists’ role of moral consciousness on the basis of analyzing and synthesizing the existing research results at home and abroad. Based on what mentioned above, it expounds comprehensively and systematically the role ethical expectation, role right and obligation, and the role of moral quality included in journalists’ role moral consciousness, and uses the problem of the lack of morality faced by current Chinese journalists as the breakthrough point, then turns the theory study tentacles to the fields of news transmission practice and explore the realistic path to cultivating journalists’ role of moral consciousness in practical level, and then establishes the overall theoretical framework of the journalists’ role of moral consciousness study.The core proposition-consciousness problem should first set the connotations and value of journalists’ role of moral consciousness and clear its status throughout the news propagation activities and its role in human social relations. In the interactive process of news transmission system and social system, journalists are in the intermediate position who are the main body of news propagation. Their main function is to collect and choose the objective and newsworthy facts, then make communication symbols and spread them to waiters through certain means so as to realize the value pursuit of reflecting the lastest social changes of human society by spreading the lastest social news information and public opinion. Journalists’ role of moral consciousness is to the understanding and practice process in which journalists conscientiously abide by ethical requirements and make their role consciousness and behavior correspond to the news ethics and social ethics expectation in the news propagation activities and social activities in order to effectively give play to the subjectivity and initiative and the reaching state of self-discipline and the moral realm of freedom consciousness. Therefore, the journalists’ role of moral consciousness is news worker individual’s self awareness to the social role morality and consciousness to stick to it.As a kind of moral phenomenon, journalists’ role of moral consciousness is rooted in the human moral culture and news culture, having the rich thought resources and the solid theoretical basis. Chinese traditional culture cultivated the early Chinese journalists’ moral consciousness thought, making them form the news spirit of "iron shoulders to moral, experienced the article". Social responsibility theory was put forward by the western news scholars provided the research of journalists’ role of moral consciousness with the ideology resources for reference. Besides, related subjects such as sociology, ethics, communication, journalism offered academic basis to the research of journalists’ role of moral consciousness, and Marxist news view and Marxist theory on human essence, theory of rights and obligations, the purpose and means theory laid a solid theoretical basis for the research of journalists’ role of moral consciousness.What is the moral consciousness, what is it for and what is the value of it in role play practice for journalists. This is the basic questions that studying news worker role moral consciousness must answer, is also the basic theory of the domain in this paper. Firstly this paper answers what is the moral consciousness and what is it for in the basic theory of the domain. Journalists moral consciousness is its role orientation, ethics expectation and a set of role ethics behavior pattern which corresponds to the status. Due to journalists playing the important role of "justice messenger" in society, society gives them the responsibility of recording history, transmitting the real information, servicing the social public, correcting public opinion guidance, spreading the positive energy, safeguarding social fairness and justice, advocating the civilization, civilizing moral ethics expectation and "iron shoulders to moral". Only by architecture cultural psychological structure of role moral personality and developing the role moral quality of honesty, justice, wisdom, courage and freedom in the role moral practice, namely the news virtue, can journalists arrive to free conscious moral realm finally. Then this paper discusses that the journalists role moral self-consciousness has the functions and values of fostering news spirit and the pursuit of justice, perfecting the journalists’ moral qualities and moral personality, optimizing the news enhancement and the ethical order of the society to answer the question of why to stick to the moral consciousness.Investigating the status quo of journalists’ role-playing from the dimension of reality and analyzing the problem of journalists’ role of moral self-consciousness and the causes of the role moral failings can make the research of journalists’ role moral consciousness more targeted. At present, with the diversification of social culture and the development of market economy, in the era of new media environment, some journalists’ behavior in the news propagation activities are contrary to their roles responsibility requirements, and their behavior motive and effect deviate from the value orientation of social responsibility and obligation, moral concept, behavior standard and moral quality of journalism, and some problems appear, such as the values of dislocation, lack of social responsibility, fake news, paid news and lack of humanistic concern. Investigating its reason, there are objective reasons of the social field to eliminate restrict the negative influence of differentiation and the news industry unhealthy tendencies, and more subjective reasons are journalists themselves lack of sense of responsibility, the role of news lack of conscience, lack of professionalism. As a result, taking the pulse of the crux of contemporary Chinese journalists’ role of moral consciousness problem and searching for the new growth points of contemporary Chinese journalists’ role of moral consciousness are the duty and mission of theoretical workers.Moral philosophy or ethics research is in order to achieve the good, and the moral research is in order to achieve the purpose of morality, so the research of journalists’ role of moral consciousness is also seeking realistic path to cultivating news worker role of moral self-consciousness, in order to make the news propagation activities become a moral, journalists to be moral, and make news dissemination activities become means of serving for the social public interest and social benign operation. The cultivation of journalists’ role of moral consciousness should be based on the current social reality and the practice of journalism and communication activities, as a whole of outer heteronomy mechanism and internal individual psychological mechanism. Firstly, use the correct guiding ideology and transmission principle to lead journalists role moral behavior. Adhere to the Marxist concept of news, and use the Marxist standpoint and viewpoint and method to observe, reflect and report the reality of social life, explain and expound correctly, and guide people to set up correct outlook on life and values by reporting and evaluating facts, adhere to the socialist core values guide in the news propagation activities, uplift the theme of socialist ideology and advocate the spreading principle of people-oriented, justice is supreme and seeking truth from facts. Secondly, strengthen the system construction to ensure the implementation of journalists’ role of moral consciousness. The perfection of system is better before and more important than the one of individuals. Establish journalists role ethics training system and perfect news moral regulation mechanism, perfect news laws and regulations and professional ethics construction system, create news workers role moral culture atmosphere, constantly optimize the environment of journalists of news propagation and cultivate role of moral consciousness. Thirdly, journalists should strengthen their moral accomplishment, improve the role of moral consciousness. Journalists strengthen the role of morality through the reading understanding and self-supervision accomplishment. Turn the role of ethics and ethical requirements into their own role moral consciousness and moral attitude in the role moral practice. Strengthen the conscious assumption of role responsibility, improve their ability of moral choice, constantly cultivate character virtue and improve role moral consciousness level.Moral philosophy or ethics research is to achieve the good, and the moral research is in order to achieve the purpose of morality, so the research of journalists’ role of moral consciousness is also seeking realistic path to cultivating news worker role of moral self-consciousness, in order to make the news propagation activities become a moral, journalists to be moral, and make news dissemination activities become means of serving for the social public interest and social benign operation. The cultivation of journalists’ role of moral consciousness should be based on the current social reality and the practice of journalism and communication activities, as a whole of outer heteronomy mechanism and internal individual psychological mechanism. Firstly, use the correct guiding ideology and transmission principle to lead journalists role moral behavior. Adhere to the Marxist concept of news, and use the Marxist standpoint and viewpoint and method to observe, reflect and report the reality of social life, explain and expound correctly, and guide people to set up correct outlook on life and values by reporting and evaluating facts, adhere to the socialist core values guide in the news propagation activities, uplift the theme of socialist ideology and advocate the spreading principle of people-oriented, justice is supreme and seeking truth from facts. Secondly, strengthen the system construction to ensure the implementation of journalists’ role of moral consciousness. The perfection of system is better, before and more important than the one of individuals. Establish journalists role ethics training system and perfect news moral regulation mechanism, perfect news laws and regulations and professional ethics construction system, create news workers role moral culture atmosphere, constantly optimize the environment of journalists of news propagation and cultivate role of moral consciousness. Thirdly, journalists should strengthen their moral accomplishent, improve the role of moral consciousness. Journalists strengthen the role of morality through the reading understanding and self-supervision accomplishment. Turn the role of ethics and ethical requirements into their own role moral consciousness and moral attitude in the role moral practice. Strengthen the conscious assumption of role responsibility, improve their ability of moral choice, constantly cultivate character virtue and improve role moral consciousness level.