A Study In Policies Of The Press And The Citizen's Right To Know

The legal right to know is vital to modern society's democracy and ruling by law. Based on the citizen's right to know, this article probes into its obligation principal part, its contents and right attribute. This text holds the opinion that the achievement of the citizen's right to know has its value such as it can push ahead the realization of other political rights of citizens, thus promote the process of the social democracy and legal system. For this reason, it has positive effects on the transformation of our society.The policies of the press are important means to the Party and the government to restrict and control the activities of the mass media. It is reflected specifically by a series of norms of conducts and standards to the report of the news, the spreading of the news, the management and the operation of the mass media, etc. This article combs out the process of the citizen's right to know which is attached importance to and confirmed gradually along with the transition of the news policies: from its existence in name only to the state of being paid much attention .completely brought up to the agenda ultimately. However, the connected legislation is lagged and the achievement requires thorough realization in reality.Of the numerous factors that influence the realization of the right, the influence of the news policies can't been ignored especially: it sets up a great deal of "forbidden zones" to restrict the choice of the news media, resulting in the holding back of the achievement of the right. This article put forward some ideas to deal with the situation, by the reformation of the news policies. Basically, we should urge the construction of the law framework; as to the ownership of the media, we think that the variety of the ownership is beneficial to encouraging the realization of the right; and in the concrete system, the government should perfect the system of the press spokesman.