On The Democratic Institution Created By Television Comments In New Media Era

The Roman Forum was buried in historical sand wind, while the habit of public debates still exists in western parliamentary. Revolutionary fire burned the political comments and newspapers, while the press comments tradition is popular in the media nowadays. Circumstances change with the passage of time, no matter how the looks of democracy varies, it's relying on public debates tradition be inherited. Rousseau spared no efforts to deduce the grand occasion of classic democracy and quite cherished the memory of the public debates pictures in the Roman Forum of ancient Greek. His memory of the past times was getting more and more romantic after time's severe test, but out of favor before the huge modern national states instantly. Political elites on the one hand take away the common people's direct governing power, on the other hand weave the fine history. As for the people behind national affairs, they keep watch for the information that mass media provides every day. Therefore the duty of representing the will of people shift to the media.In most of the time, the democracy history is full of liberalism, when free speech and public debates are invitation of the age. The logic behind is freedom and equality. The media accepts the invitation, run around the power field, and monitor the obstacles on the way of democracy with high hold of press freedom banner and people's anticipation. The world gets more and more complicate, when the endlessly working people are aware of the impossibility to return democratic debate field since they find the distance between social realities getting further. No matter whether the media is controlled by power oppression and commercial logic, its own speech is quite closed. In such a society that democracy return to its location now, the contradiction of public debates and closed channel is more and more distinct. Under this circumstance, Robert W. McChesney wishes to rebuild the media system and democracy mechanism to get connected with the people.This paper follows such thoughts, averts eyes to new domestic media era, in order to seek for appropriate speech mode which helps to present people's figure and respond the invitation of"civic engagement"in the representative democracy. After the calculation of media choice probability, the view point is set in TV comments, especially the example of CCTV-2"Jinri Guancha". Supported by the internet and communication technology, this program revises the closure disadvantage of traditional comments, aims to reproduce democratic debates in an open speech space. Its basic making idea emphasizes audience participation, civilian speech and multiple interactions. Compared with traditional comments, its speech mode still seem representative, but public admission produces audience psychology, added in thousands of click rate and reply quantity after terminal topics in the internet forum,"majority opinion"on statistics level has formed. That is the correspondence which meets mental threshold of civil participation fundamentally.Although traditional press review boasts its help for public voice and enhancement of democracy, the closure nature of the speech space makes the educational function of media to set example for public debates get no sufficient exhibition, furthermore the democratic temperament can't permeate into people's daily life. The open speech space mode made by"Jinri Guancha"has advantages on this. It gathers the permeating advantage of television, Internet and communication technology. As a result, public debates adorn people's life, and democracy educational atmosphere spread to social space. Among this, public knowledge get spread, speech level enhanced, tolerant and equal democratic temperament cultivated, and"Jinri Guancha"just like the example of media on design-building speech now.James Carey described the media as"democratic nickname". Although such praise carry it too far, to some extent it restate the strong effect of media, and nowadays Chinese people also harbour such psychological present. So that"Jinri Guancha"needs to make exploration on how to influence public policy. The advice given in this paper is to let public authority come in, experience and partake the public debates. Even if"Jinri Guancha"selects other paths, still many harsh walks should to take. The public also should feel the television review organizational system in democratic times to come with tolerate heart.