A Study On The Current Situation And Countermeasure Of Journalists’ Ideological

In modern society, the news media is a kind important informatician media,which acquaints people with timely and accurate news information and eliminatestheir uncertain understanding of all kinds of things around them. In this way, itimproves people’s ability to adjust to the environment and to handle variousemergencies, thus enabling them to live a more proficient life and maintaining anorderly society.At the same time, the news media is a way of spiritual interaction, which canhelp people in certain social relations to exchange knowledge and opinions and tocommunicate thoughts and feelings so as to be understood and acknowledged.Therefore, it promotes the acquaintance, understanding and harmony among people.In addition, news media is a means to guide the public opinions. By setting thediscourse agenda, it underlines the topics that best reflect the communicator’sthoughts and interests so as to attract the public attention and influence them to attachmore importance to them or approve them. In this way, the purpose to guide thepublic opinion is achieved.The news media and news publicity work always draw a great attention from theParty and the country. The journalists are the components of the news media and theexecutives of the news publicity work. Thanks to the fast economic developmentsince the Reform and Opening up to the outside world, great and rapid changes havetaken place in people’s material and spiritual life and these changes have not come toand. Changes in material life are easily to be seen; while changes in spiritual worldcan only be felt and understood by channels of media whose operators are none otherthan journalists. However, as an individual who is also enveloped in this times, thejournalists’ state of mind and level of psychological health are always ignored.Because news products are the results of journalists’ subjective feelings towardsthe objective world, in a sense, their state of mind and level of psychological healthdirectly affect the performance of news publicity work. So it can be said that to studythe current ideological situation of journalists is a part of the construction of socialistspiritual civilization and has its particularity and necessity. This paper starts from thedescription of the current ideological situation of journalists and develops from theelementary to the profound.The first part begins with the journalists’ personal quality and career expectationand integrates the characteristics and concept of journalists as well as their political and professional quality and professional standard quality, making an overalldescription of them. Then based on task attributes such as, the communicators incommunicating the news message, the guide in guiding public opinions and theexecutives in supervising the public opinions, the article prepares the theory and laysfoundation for the study of their current ideological situation.The second part makes profound analysis of the current ideological situation ofjournalists based on the author’s personal survey and supported by concrete data andexamples. Many vivid, accurate and concrete examples are drawn to prove theanalysis. And a sober perspective is chosen to view the current ideological situation ofjournalists, that is to say to erase their glory and restore them to an individual humanbeing so as to analyze the human foundation of their current ideological situationfrom the aspects of individualism, money worship, the lack of sympathy and theicmorality.The third part further analyzes the internal, external and also the generalenvironmental factors that cause the unhealthy phenomena. In this process of analysis,focus is on the presentation of the factors as news industrialization and various socialideological trends. Efforts are made to put the current ideological situation ofjournalists in a bigger and wider time and space pattern so as to be complete andmeticulous.The last part mainly explains the methods to face the current ideological situationof journalists and to address problems arising from it in a sensible, rational andpowerful way. It also points out that ideological and political education is the way tosolving the journalists’ actual problems.