Characteristics of Western Traditional News View

Western journalists' news values and standards of judging news are different from ours, but their strong news sensitivity is one of their strengths. The bourgeois news view holds that news sensitivity is "innate" and is an idealistic news view; On the contrary, the proletarian journalism view holds that journalists' news sensitivity is constantly cultivated and tempered in the interview practice, and adheres to the Marxist materialist journalism view.

(1) On the sensitive issue of news, the bourgeois view of news.

(1) Casper yost, an influential American journalist, said in his book "Principles of Journalism" that a person without "journalistic awareness" cannot become a journalist. However, in terms of sensitive sources, it is in a contradictory position. On the one hand, he regards "news nose" (bourgeois journalism works call news sensitivity "news nose") as "natural": "Journalists need to have a natural discrimination to distinguish what is important and what is not ..." On the other hand, he said that "news sense" can be cultivated through training and experience.

② Some news works simply think that "news sense of smell" is the sixth nature of journalists, and "this sense of smell has almost become the nature of some talented people". Mysticate the sensitivity of news and fall into the quagmire of idealism.

(2) On sensitive news issues, the proletarian view of news.

From the Marxist materialist view of news, news sensitivity is not born to journalists, but is constantly cultivated and trained by journalists in their interview practice. There are many journalists at home and abroad who didn't even have the basic knowledge of news when they first became journalists, but after long-term news practice, they constantly summed up both positive and negative experiences and lessons, and finally became journalists with strong news sensitivity. This fact strongly denies the argument that news sensitivity is "innate".