Acomparative Study Of Sun Yat-sen And Thomas Jefferson’s Journalistic Thoughts

Sun Yat-sen and Thomas Jefferson were the founding fathers of China and theUnited States. Sun Yat-sen as the Chinese democratic revolution forerunner of moderntimes, the first move completely anti-feudal banner,"establish the Republic and endthe monarchy.“Sun’s first journalistic practices began in the “China Daily” founder.Thomas Jefferson, the American three heroes, the main drafters of the "Declaration ofIndependence”, is due to his initiative, the United States increased the first tenamendments to the Constitution in1789, known as the “Bill of Rights”, this bill willprotect freedom of speech into the U.S. Constitution. In addition, the establishment of“National Gazette” is one of the important news practice of Jefferson. Jeffersonhimself as the leader of the Democratic Republican Party,“National Gazette” wasfounded on his future political activities help.The journalistic ideological point of view, both agree that the natural rights ofcitizens to freedom of expression, and are considered in the framework of a democraticrepublic worth protecting freedom of the press, but have focused on specificperformance. Sun’s journalistic ideas and activities, completed the practice of the pressas a political mouthpiece; Jefferson also admitted that the party newspaper, but morefocused on the political function of monitoring the government for newspapers. At thesame time, there are two different sources of news philosophical thought. Sun Yat-senhas its own idea about knowledge and action as the source of its founding, meanwhileJefferson is a staunch supporter of the concept of natural rights. Additionally, SunYat-sen and Jefferson are in varying degrees have made important practical newslegislation. Overall, the loss of life, undone of its founding, Sun Yat-sen and Jeffersonin the news planning and practice demonstrated the vision, reflecting the socialconditions and the internal laws of the media need to grow, to become the support andinfluence in their respective countries important public intellectual heritage atlas.