| The practice of media criticism in modern China,before the May Fourth New Culture Movement,was mostly irrational,fragmented,perceptual,and fragmented.During the "May 4th Movement" period,the modern newspaper industry emerged,and the theoretical research of journalism made historic breakthroughs.The practice of media criticism took journalism theory as the basis for criticism,which achieved further development and began to show academic color.After that,the rational thinking of media criticism became more mature.Some critics began to start from value rationality,use method rationality,and re-conceive and understand media from the height of academic rationality.This article attempts to dig out the first-hand relevant media criticism texts and historical materials from the vast historical literature,combing and analyzing the connotation and characteristics of the times.According to the author’s research,Chinese modern media criticism texts have begun to evaluate the status quo of media activities from the perspective of journalism theory and business,and adopt scientific research methods to explore the law of media development;these criticisms imply the realization of social progress.The academic contribution of the construction of spiritual civilization;after the 1930 s,a large number of texts examining the human values and social values embodied by the media and media behaviors appeared.They ranged from the aspects of media products,media phenomena,media ethics,media systems,and media culture.Open up criticism.These academically rational media criticisms have played a progressive role in promoting the construction of journalism theory,urging the improvement of the newspaper industry,and laying the foundation for academic research on media criticism.Unfortunately,they also have time limitations.For example,they are overly dependent on journalism theory,cannot get rid of their political tool attributes,and fail to conduct independent and systematic academic research on media criticism. |