The Media Collectively Began The Ethical Thinking Behind Guo Meimei

As the activities of public transmission become booming. The permeation, intervention and influence from mass media to social life have become bigger and bigger. People's dependency to media has grown stronger. The media has became an important channel to change peoples' life style, and even the way of thinking, also it directly influence peoples' moral sentiments, values and outlook on life. On the view of ethic to look at the ethic role of mass media, we could find that the mass media has played the role of moral disseminator, moral educator, moral supervisor and social value guide by performing the function of information spreading, social integration, cultural inheritance, entertainment providing. But the media can't execute its duty and responsibility self-consciously in the market-oriented and entertainment-oriented trend. The dissimilation and absence of media function digest the social values, and accelerate the morality undone. Guo Meimei is regarded as a social symbol, not an individual. Her life experience and character is the symbol of social corruption moral decline. To research Guo Meimei, we need put her under the overall situation of the society and media development. She is born from the consumerism trend of thought impact in consumer society, and from the unbalance development of economy and spirit during the period of social transition. She is product that media neglect to achieve being good, neglect to realize the social values, ignore the ethic of responsibility. She is the double tragedy of individual and society. After Guo Meimei arrested by police, the media exposed all her things, to invade her privacy openly, hurt subject of right, influence the judicial fairness and didn't show any respect and care to Guo Meimei and her families. Comparing reports about Guo Meimei from different domestic media and similar reports from overseas media, to analyze the performance and reasons of media ethic anomie, to explore new way which avoid media ethic anomie behavior, to arouse peoples' conceptual knowledge about Guo Meimei, to deeply think about the development status of Chinese media and society.