An Analysis Of News Media's Negative Impact On Criminal Judicature

As the main body of implementation and guidance of supervision of public opinion, new media plays a positive role on many aspects, such as citizen's rights to know the operation of criminal judicature, restraining judicature corruption, carrying our law publicity and education, etc. However, a variety of factors like internal differences between news media and criminal judicature, systems to be completed, long terms impact by accumulated culture and tradition, China's less perfect restrictive mechanism on news media, etc. make news media cause negative impact on criminal judicature in many ways. How to protect the freedom of the press and reduce undue interference in criminal judicature at the same time, and how to prevent more negative impact on criminal judicature brought by new media, has become the issues which the legal profession and the media have to face up to and think deeply. On the basis of integrating relevant theoretical studies on the relationship between news media and criminal judicature, the author combined current new media coverage with observational studies of criminal judicature in real cases. Through rational considerations, the author holds that we should keep the press be free and reasonable. Under this premise, not only news media's negative impact on criminal judicature could be reduced in the largest possible extent, but the realization of its reasonable and lawful monitor rights on criminal judicature could be protected, by means of news media's self discipline and relevant laws and regulations, and by the restriction of deviant, inappropriate, illegal acts of the news media on institutions and laws. Thus it is significant to the construction of a state governed by law.