| As the chief representative of Hong Kong' professional journalists in the contemporary era, Lin Xingzhi is one of the most influential commenters in Hong Kong for more than 30 years. In the past 30 years, Lin Xingzhi continued writing commentary on current affairs by his acute angle of view , calm brain , rational analysis at that time and the strong responsibility for the society and people, and his commentaries are popular in the Chinese in Hong Kong and overseas.This dissertation takes the commentaries in the Lin Xingzhi's Column after Hong Kong returning to China as the research object, according to the basic factors of news commentary, through the text analyzing and the comparison analyzing, to analyse the subject selection, making points, arguing measure, style of writing, Lin's personal experience and the society in Hong Kong. The goal is to generalize the characteristics of Lin's Column, to dig reasons of these characteristics and to discuss the connotation of Lin's column and journalism.The dissertation is divided into 4 parts. The first part concerns Lin's experience in journalism and his cooporation with other commenters. The author exhibit Lin's journalism experience and his contribution on commentary circle. Part two concentrates on analysing Lin's Column. The author generalizes the characteristics of Lin's Column and finds out the reason why his commentaries are popular in Hong Kong. Part three discuss the reason why those characteristics exist. The author probes the interior and exterior reasons. The last part is devoted to appraise Lin's column. The author digs the connotation of Lin's Column in commentary writing, news media environment, civilizing the society and public opinion aspects. At last, the author points out that Lin's charming personality, pursuing the journalism continually, unattached commentary position and strong resposibility for the society and people should inspire the journalists in Mainland China. |
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