A Research Of "Journalism Of Assertion" In The Perspective Of Media Literacy

In June 1980,CNN starts broadcasting,the news competition in the worldwide become more heated.in order to report as soon as possible,more and more news organizations give up the verification of accuracy of the contents,then the "Journalism of Assertion" was born.Only after twenty or thirty years development,the "journalism of assertion" replaced the "Journalism of Verification",become the main news model,since it can meet the original desire of audience for information,and it can bring more interests for news communicators.We can not ignore the huge harms brought by the "Journalism of assertion",This paper analyzed the "Journalism of assertion" in details,and then advance the causes of the "Journalism of Assertion",such as the competition between different kinds of media,the convenience of information broadcasting in the age of internet,the habit changed in receiving information of audience(user),and the news pages are increased.This paper also argues that,because of the characters of "Journalism of Assertion",such as lack of investigation,hadn't question the assertion,hadn't require and check the evidence,news media turn from the "gatekeeper" to a simple information channel.This news mode challenge the news mode which is based on social responsibility,seriously affected the audiences' sense of the whole world and their behavior,even cause the great damage to social and public interest.The perspective of this paper is media literacy,it is analyzed in details how media literacy affect the produce of the "journalism of assertion".For journalist,high level of professional ethics is the inner motive to reject produce "journalism of assertion",accurate professional cognition help them reject produce "journalism of assertion" in the aspects of idea and ability,the view of public interest is a powerful weapon to stop the overflow of "journalism of assertion".For audience(user),although the level of media literacy can not directly affect the produce of "journalism of assertion",it can affect the environmental of this type of jornalism.These are mainly embodied in:the level of rational in information consumption decide the motivation to produce the"journalism of assertion";the capability to detective the news elements affect the radiation of "journalism of assertion";the consciousness of media supervision affect the trend of this type of news;the consciousness of responsibility decide the space of the development of "journalism of assertion".Finally,this paper put forward two ways of how "Journalism of assertion" back to the "Journalism of Verification",these ways are all in the perspective of media literacy.First,try to improve the media literacy of journalists;second,try to improve the media literacy of audience(user)from their two roles:the news receiver and news communicator.