The Exploration On The Coverage Limit Of The Legal System News Of The Party Organ

The legal system news refers to a variety of information about legislation,judicature, law enforcement and law abiding as well as other information related to"legal idea" in all walks of life and in different aspects of social life. Its mainfunctions lie in disseminating the legal system news and raising the citizens' lawruling consciousness. The coverage limit of law news can be summarized as the scopeof news practical activities in which the journalists reflect the fresh facts happened inlegal activities by giving play to their subjective initiative.The legal system news undertakes the following main tasks: releasing andinterpreting legal policies, analyzing the situation of the construction of rule of law,pondering the new conditions in the construction, supervising the democratizationand scientification of national legislation and decision-making by government, aswell as supervising the smooth carrying out of government orders and the observanceof disciplines and law by national civil servants. Excellent the legal system newsreports will make the mediaplay a bigger role in the propaganda of rule of law; createa favorable environment of public opinion for legal activities, thus helping to realizejudicial justice; defend judicial authority; protect the public credibility of the Partyand government; lesson the conflict between the public and judicial & lawenforcement authority and the government; and promote news policies to correspondto the reality of law news report as well.Given that the legal system news has wide and far-reaching influence—it notonly can strengthen the citizens' law-ruling consciousness, facilitate the smoothprogress of judicial activities and law enforcement and safeguard the authority of theParty and government, but also can produce adverse effect, news media should graspwell the proper coverage limit of law news, which necessitates a clear and thoroughunderstanding of the content and potential effect of the coverage. In real life, thereexist four conflicts between legal activities and news report activities due to their respective particularities: the conflict between the legal system news report and thelegal system news propaganda, the conflict between the legal system newsvulgarization and raising the citizens' awareness of rule of law, the conflict betweenthe legal system news report and judicial activities and law enforcement, as well asthe conflict between the legal system news report and safeguarding the authority ofthe Party and government. For the purpose of reducing and resolving conflicts andadvance the harmonious development of society, this paper proposes that thecoverage limit of law news should be grasped from thefour aspects of reportopportunities, report angles, report density and report methods; it also puts forwardsome suggestions for the grasp of coverage limit. Considering that disseminating theidea of rule of law and raising the citizens' law ruling consciousness constitute themain purposes of law news, this paper holds the idea that adhering to the reportingprinciple of propagating the thought of "rule of law" should be taken as both theconcept and one coverage limit of law news report. Meanwhile, as the legal systemnews report is inseparable from the basic category of news, objectivity, justice,accuracy and timeliness remain the basic requirements of such news.The paper mainly uses such methods as case analysis, comparative analysis,content analysis and deduction to explore the coverage limit of law news of the Partyorgan.