What should a reporter do if he is beaten and scolded? Can you fight back?

The incident of "police beating journalists" in Gannan, Heilongjiang Province has been fermenting for n days. The latest development is that the secretary of Gannan County Party Committee publicly apologized and a deputy director of the police station involved was dismissed. However, this move has not calmed the turbulent disputes in the public opinion field, and Gannan is still in the eye of the storm.

Bian Xiao worked as a journalist and went deep into the police. Today, Bian Xiao's circle of friends is divided: friends in the media are shouting: "The right to supervise public opinion is inviolable!" The friend of the police is wailing: "The police are always cannon fodder of public opinion. Who will dare to defend campus security in the future? " Some people who eat melons lamented: "Strange thing, the reporter made an unannounced visit to the school, and the police were punished first?"

The parties hold their own words, and the tear of the public opinion field is once again presented. But should they have the same standards? By this standard, who crossed the line? In this regard, Bian Xiao has four words to say-

The first sentence, to Gannan: No matter the truth of "nutritious lunch" or the red line of "campus safety", it is not allowed to harm the interests of children in any form.

The "unannounced visit" by two reporters of China Education News was because someone reported that the Education Bureau of gannan county City, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province had deducted the subsidy for students' nutritious lunch and other irregularities. Reporters Liu and Liu Dun found that the middle school in Xing 14 Town of this county distributed "rotten raw eggs" as a nutritious lunch for students.

Bian Xiao once interviewed the nutrition improvement plan for rural students. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance have stipulated the subsidy standard of "4 yuan per person per meal" in order to supplement the dietary nutrition for rural primary and middle school students in poor areas. At the beginning of implementation, the central and local governments spent 30 billion yuan each year. Now, it will only be higher.

For the benefit of children, the reporter's supervision is well-founded to prevent geese from plucking. The Education Department of Heilongjiang Province also carried out nutritional meal inspection in the whole province.

What is debatable is the means of supervision. In order to get the "real thing", the reporter entered the campus after school and distributed candy to the children. After being discovered by the school, he still refused to reveal his identity, which made many parents sweat: "This time he is a reporter, what if he is a gangster next time?"

Today, a letter from my mother to China Education Newspaper was widely forwarded. The letter asked: "If the police dare not protect our children, who will protect our children?"

Reporters investigate for children, and police defend campus security for children. The interests of the children are the original intention of our guardianship.

Facing this original intention, please put down your ego and prejudice first!

The second sentence, for the police: standardizing law enforcement is not an empty talk, not only for journalists-for everyone. If the police involved really violate the rules, don't "protect the scorpion"; If the evidence is unknown, they should not be victims of public opinion.

In the uproar, Li Yingdong, the policeman involved, was dismissed. But public opinion does not buy it. Truth needs evidence, but the chain of evidence is not complete.

Bian Xiao saw the existing media reports. There are only two kinds of evidence about whether the policeman Li Yingdong hit the reporter: one is the reporter's recording; The second is the medical certificate of the hospital. In the recording, the reporter shouted "You hit me." The policeman said, "Who hit you?" In the next few times, the sound source could not be verified; According to the diagnosis, after a series of "no abnormality", there are expressions of "right elbow soft tissue contusion" and "head injury". How did this happen? There is no evidence to prove it.

As a former journalist, I understand the reporter's anxiety when he meets the local police when interviewing "negative news". However, in the period of social transformation and prominent contradictions, the police are bound to be the "shield" in the face of social contradictions because of their responsibilities.

The supervision right of journalists is worth defending, and so is the law enforcement right of police to maintain social peace.

We can have different views and positions, but at least, we should be based on facts.

Bian Xiao noticed that another version of the fact is also fermenting in the public opinion field:

Don't waste, don't ignore, this is the basic attitude. But before there is further evidence, the public opinion trial against the police, even on the grounds of safeguarding children's rights and interests, does not have natural justice.

The truth hasn't come yet, please don't line up!

The third sentence, to the reporter: the right to supervise public opinion must be guaranteed, but the lofty goal must be achieved through the fairness of the process, and no one has the privilege before the law.

Journalists are regarded as "watchmen of the mast of the times". They "shoulder the burden of morality and write articles skillfully." They use the power that penetrates the back of paper to pulse the society and push the times forward. From the Hugue case to the Nie Shubin case, from the helpless crying in the shack to the eve of the fall of the "big tiger", there were no journalists. The uncrowned king, when so.

This is also the reason why the right to supervise public opinion deserves the protection of the whole society.

But the bottom line of the reporter's interview is to do things according to law.

First-line investigative reporters can understand by obtaining first-hand evidence through unannounced visits. However, the school has found that the unannounced visit failed. In the face of anonymous "suspicious people", the school has the right to suspect that the two may pose a threat to the safety of children's lives-who knows if there is poison in the sugar? When the police arrived, it was reasonable and legal to take them away for questioning. If not, it is dereliction of duty.

According to the provisions of Article 9 of the People's Police Law, in order to maintain public order, the police can interrogate and inspect the persons suspected of committing crimes on the spot after presenting the corresponding certificates; After questioning and inspection, if there are "unidentified suspects", they can be taken to the public security organs for further questioning.

Bian Xiao consulted the police in charge of campus security, and his answer was clear: According to the regulations, no one is allowed to enter the school gate without the permission of the school. Those who enter the school gate can be regarded as a potential threat to students, and the school security can deal with it first and report it to the public security organ, which should deal with it promptly and effectively according to law.

Today, another letter is also very popular, called "A Letter from a Grassroots Policeman to Gannan County Party Secretary and China Education Newspaper". It says:

In the face of the police, the two journalists still refused to disclose their identities on the grounds that they had "not done anything illegal" and the police would definitely take compulsory measures. The logic is simple: if a person claims that he has not broken the law, no criminal will be brought to justice.

"Everyone is equal before the law", and journalists cannot be above the law.

Don't let today's irony come true: "It's not necessarily the bad guys who give candy, it's the reporters."

In front of the rules, please put down the consciousness of "privilege" first!

The fourth sentence, in the field of public opinion: how many tears we have caused because of "stereotype", we are getting farther and farther away from the truth! The police and the media should not be enemies. Everything should be based on facts and take the law as the criterion.

The Gannan incident is on fire, and the progress is not unpleasant: the local investigation concluded that Li Yingdong, a policeman, "was simple and rude in the process of law enforcement and pushed the parties", and the county party secretary immediately apologized.

However, the mutual tearing in the field of public opinion has not stopped. Who is deliberately provoking the relationship between the police and the media? The police focus on fighting crime, and the media focus on reporting the truth. They are friends who pursue fairness and justice and promote social civilization and progress!

There is only one truth. The so-called "strong" can neither bully the weak with brute force nor bully the weak with public opinion. Through these interferences, we must adhere to the rule of law and act according to law. Let fairness and justice benefit everyone, and no one should be a victim of irrational public opinion.

In this world, there is never a lack of kindness, what is lacking is reason and restraint. Please take care of your kindness, make it bright and dazzling like a rose, but it also has a sharp edge, which can protect justice.

The law is right! ! !