A Study On Moral Restriction Of Mass Communication

Communication is the process of information from sending and receiving. Seeing superficially, it just means a technique instrument, don't attach to carry the worth judgment and have nothing related to ethic. But the investigation from the various angle just as the subject, the audience, the process, the environment, the symbol and the content of communication, etc. can be proved that communication have the moral attribute. The mass communication is the communication to much audience. The mass communication media generally include the newspaper, periodical, the broadcast and television, book, movie and Internet. On the relation of the mass communication and ethics, on the one hand, the mass communication of the modern society has the moral function; On the other hand, the social moral standard and the formation of the norms and the movement of the moral systems all can't get away from the mass communication. This is the premise and the foundation of moral restriction of mass communication.Marxism what concern about"free publication", of"the ethics spirit of the publication"and the viewpoint that the media should defends the society, etc. deemed that it should give moral restriction to communication medium. This is the important theories basis with moral restriction to mass communications. The theory of social duty sweeps away the academic obstacle by enduing the freedom of press with new meanings, which means the new possibility of moral restriction of mass communications.The mass communication has to restrict because it can deeply affect audience and society, and at the same time, the mass communication would like to accept restriction of moral because it pursues the public's trust on its own initiative. In all restritions, the funtion of restrition of moral can't be substitute by other restrition such as law,administration and market because the restriction of moral is voluntary, soft and come in advance.China have constituted The Rule of Moral for Chinese Journalist and other regulation for...