On The Rights And Norms Of The News Media In China

Media have the functions that they can transfer all kinds of information, communicate public feelings, induct consensus, deliver critiques, propagandize ideologies, unfold comments, carry out intendance, etc. Without the rights of gathering news, reporting news, and commenting news on law, the media can not exert the functions mentioned above. In China, media are the propaganda of the Party and the government. They are also the mouthpiece of the Party and the people. The Party and the government give the media all kinds of broad rights, but the rights are not definitude on law. On the one hand, if the reporters are aggrieved the law can not eliminate the aggression from the aspect of the journalism profession, on the other hand the media aggrieve the people's rights in gathering and reporting news. Sometimes the media make use of the rights to buck for illegal economic interests and interfere with justice trials. The media should assume the responsibilities when they use the rights. They should receive the supervision when the media supervise the society. We can administer the media from the system, the law and the professional morality and so on, so that they can serve for the people and the country much finer.