Study On The "Focus" Column

TV news commentary program,as the voice and banners of the television media, not only report news and disseminate information, but also guide public opinion and perform supervision of public opinion, which obviously played an extremely important role in the current society of China. The"Focus"column that launched in 1994 had promoted many provincial TV stations to establish such programs, which led the TV news commentary into a development peak and create a new situation of supervision by public opinion.This article makes every effort to further more the development of television news commentary from theory innovation to the reform of reality, in which contains following content: to outline the TV news commentary and the"Focus"column; to analyze and summarize the 364 programs of"Focus"column in 2008; to analyze the content and characteristic of the"Focus"column; to inquire into the form of television news commentary, the characteristic of its supervision, and its narrative characteristic of"speaks with the fact"; Finally to forecast the development trend of television news commentary and put forward the proposal.Furthermore,this article proposed some viewpoints such as,"the supervision and the guidance of public opinion varied closely by the core of government working and domestic propaganda policy","the commentary of"Focus"is content , not an independent program form"and"the"Focus"is a news critical topic column."...