The Development Process of Chinese Political Tradition

The Development Process of Chinese Political Tradition

Chinese journalism, marching through the crisis of the Chinese nation, has always been a forum for various political forces to discuss social issues, making political party newspapers the mainstream of Chinese journalism. The content and form of journalism have also traditionally been dominated by political commentary, and have formed the tradition and characteristics of Chinese journalism.

China's newspapers have always had a tradition of political commentary: from the 1874 bourgeois reformist Wang Tao's Cyclical Daily, which was a newspaper with political commentary as its soul, to the later bourgeois revolutions in which the struggles of the reformists and revolutionaries pushed forward the development of political commentary; it was forced to be interrupted during the reign of the Beiyang Warlords; and it was pushed forward in the New Culture Movement by the New Youth and the Weekly Review, which had an important role in publicizing their own ideas and in promoting their own political views. These political commentaries played an important role in publicizing their own ideas and building up their own momentum. But at the same time, for the sake of their own partisan interests between the various factions sometimes do not care about the facts, only to sing with each other, to some extent, weakened the authenticity of the facts.

2, emphasize the news

Political party newspapers also pay special attention to the news, especially during the second national newspaper climax, due to the improvement of communication equipment and printing technology, coupled with the development of the economy and the political situation, the amount of news coverage has increased dramatically, the large daily newspaper every day published press releases are generally 20 to 30, more than 50 articles. The face of news coverage also expanded accordingly, began to be divided into political news, economic news, social news, international news and other different categories, published in a fixed page.

3, do not pay attention to the commercial operation

Political party newspapers are mostly political parties founded to publicize their own ideas, have their own propaganda purposes (such as the "People's Daily" of the Three Principles of the People), often as a stronghold of their own activities (such as the "China Daily"), and with the other faction to do the fight (such as the "People's Daily" and the "New People's Newspaper from the newspaper" of the polemical war), so they put more power in politics, and ignored the commercialization of the operation.

It can be seen that the political party newspapers were very combative, political, and useful in awakening the people to defend the interests of their own factions, but they lacked in the modernization of the newspapers.

Comparing the two, it is easy to see that commercial newspapers are profit-oriented, with strong commercialization and modernization, such as The Declaration, which is like a humorous and sophisticated middle-aged businessman, while political party newspapers are highly combative and inflammatory, like a young student with a strong sense of vitality. But both emphasize the news and both survive in the same semi-colonial and semi-feudal China, subject to a variety of restrictions, and can not reach the developed countries in the West the degree of newspaper development.