| As the latest trend in the current television news, news of the masses also exposes a series of problems for its trivialness, vulgarism, negativity during its growing process. Television news of the masses imposes a negative effect on reflecting the real fact and developing the advancing culture. There are two main reasons. One is the commercialized operation of the media and the other is people's misunderstanding of the concept of news of the masses. People take it for granted that the so-called news of the masses is to show each facet of people's life, to narrate people's own story and to cater for the different tastes of the audience. In evidently, it will reduce the news of the masses to a tool to spread all sorts of scandals, crimes and programs of emptiness and low tastes.First and foremost, this article reveals the fact that this kind of news in the form of commercialization for its initial intention and purpose does not conform to the connotation of the news of the masses. Secondly, the definitions of "the news of the masses", "human-oriented", "humanitarianism" as well as the fundamental principles of television journalism are studied and used to tell the connotation and function of television journalism which serve as the premise for theoretical reflection. The last but not the least, combined with the connotation and function of television journalism, this article studies and reflects on each detailed operation of the news of the masses on the basis of theories of journalism, communication, narratology.This article strives to clarify the misunderstanding of the current television news of the masses on both concept and practice and apply binary approaches of function (maro) and each detailed operation (micro) to explore a system info as reference to upgrading the news of the masses. |
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