September 17, a business in Shandong to find Beijing's "goods and quality" magazine, wanted to explain his so-called "quality" issue being dealt with and rejected the magazine for corporate exposure to threats and blackmail. To my astonishment, not only business people have been detained in the magazine's editorial board, together with other publications to the detention of journalists, the final alarm Detuo. Representations of both sides when the person in charge of the magazine continue to bluster, claiming that they do not spend money not removed the so-called exposure, and say "you can not get out Beijing", then people think could have been the majority of intellectuals media, has become almost synonymous with triads.
That some of the media is "Election" is not raved. The fake reporter from Shanxi, real journalists are lining up to "hush money" to certain people or things to exposure as a threat to pull advertising or other revenue, or activities with awards like the direct fraud, and, in many media, see to, this is the way of making money. Nature is the triad extortion performance awards not also? I remember in Hong Kong gangster film, the underworld protection fees when the door is armed with flowers, but you have to spend big money to buy Caixing.
As a media person, naturally abhors such behavior, but because one can not help all imposed on the media a lot and failed, but some problems with the whole media system.
Date of birth from the media, its deterrent force was well-known, so that the last is called the "fourth power", the reporter also called "Wumianzhiwang" in China, there are "officials see big one" in argument. The reason why the media has such power, not because it acquired the right to speak, but in a way, is a citizen gave them that power.
If the media is a market-oriented operation, readers, and advertising is sustenance. Although the revenue from advertising, but not the reader no ads Everyone knows the truth. Why do readers look at your newspapers, magazines? To understand the real information. A media can not report real information, the reader is cut also survive. In the market environment, someone will provide real information to fill in neutral gear. This creates a positive cycle, we must be responsible for their remarks. Citizens on mere money to buy a newspaper that, on the fourth powers of supervision.
In us are not necessarily the case.
We are here to say that market-oriented media, but in fact only the surface many of the market, and its power comes from the fundamental resource for the media monopoly. No matter what newspapers and magazines, in fact, are state-owned assets. Do not know if people remember there's two-track system, while the market price, while the price is the plan, leading to widespread power the economy. Exercise of power without responsibility for their clients, often will use this power to pursue their own interests. Frankly speaking, our current media situation is the case. There are many honest people trying to become a true media watchdogs, but there are a lot of people rely on the power from the top down, which evolved into a form of triad, or the news thugs.
This just shows that this news triad and the presence of thugs, the resulting approach is precisely that named as "the fourth power," it is attached to the executive power arise. Thus, we should be more vigilant of this White Road, "Election" media, in any possible circumstances, deny them any extortion. To know that they actually have no influence.