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1. Comments: Professional ethics is an invisible force.

In Xiamen, a heavy rain covered the potholes on the road with accumulated water. A cyclist got stuck in a puddle, fell down and his car overturned. A photojournalist, waiting for this scene to appear, took a complete picture of the whole process. Another editor took these photos and compiled a half-page newspaper with the theme of "Road Trap", reminding citizens to travel carefully and urging the municipal government to solve it properly. It is such a seemingly no big deal, which triggered a heated discussion on journalistic professional ethics this week. On Sina. Com, netizens have spoken more than 3000 times. Knowing that there was a trap on the road, but watching others step in without warning, someone asked the photographer, "If the person who fell was your relative, would you still wait for him there?" Compared with these allegations, the reasons and statements of defense are more abundant. For example, some people think that this reporter stayed in the storm for nearly 1 hour, took a vivid picture of the moment when the news happened, and faithfully fulfilled his duty of being as close as possible to record the news facts. The debate on this matter reflects a puzzling question in the professional ethics of journalism: Do you want to be a good person or a good reporter first? Some people quoted the picture "Vultures and Girls" which won the international news prize in 1980s, trying to prove that this problem has not been well solved in the western society with developed news media. Some people also argued: "There are many puddle traps on the road. If the reporter reminds the fallen cyclist, it will only solve the problem for a while at most, but he took photos and published them in the newspaper, prompting the government functional departments to improve their work, which actually avoided more people falling into the trap and brought greater merit to the society. " In my opinion, being a good reporter or being a good person first is actually a false proposition. To be an excellent reporter, you must start with an excellent person. If journalists' professionalism and love for their posts are only understood as accurate and timely transmission of news facts, then this profession is completely equivalent to a professional tool, ignoring the more critical and important core value connotation of their profession in society: maintaining good social values. Only by firmly establishing the belief of this professional behavior can journalists fulfill their social responsibilities. Seeing death (injury) and not saving it is an indifferent behavior that society cannot tolerate and is despised by the public. Seeing innocent passers-by may be painful and hurt, and you have the time and ability to stop it, just waiting for something to happen. When such a picture finally appeared in the newspaper, the professional ethics foundation of journalists behind this behavior has begun to shake violently. Its silent meaning is: as long as the report is excellent and some people like to read it in the newspaper, what does it matter how an ordinary person feels (according to netizens, the photographer not only photographed the process of a citizen falling, but also published vivid pictures selected from several people who fell)? However, if we are so indifferent to the feelings of an ordinary person, the performance of the media's vocation of balancing society and paying attention to public interests will also be marked with a heavy question mark. Professional ethics is a frequent topic in many news events in recent years. This week, the Yuanmingyuan environmental comprehensive improvement project, which has received much attention, also reported that the EIA unit could not be found to issue an assessment report. An official of the State Environmental Protection Administration publicly called the roll and criticized an EIA unit for not taking this "hot potato" for fear of offending people. He pointed out that although EIA units can choose EIA projects independently, they should be morally condemned for giving up their professional ethics and professional reputation for a little economic gain and loss and personal interests. Yes, in addition to mandatory systems such as laws and professional norms, moral norms are also dominated by intangible forces such as public order and good customs and public opinion. However, what puzzles me is that there is often a dislocation in many lectures on the construction of professional ethics, that is, the phenomenon that should be under the jurisdiction of law is regulated as a moral issue. For example, the press called on journalists to boycott paid news, and the medical profession advocated that doctors should not accept "red envelopes"; Right and wrong, which should belong to the ethical category, is regarded as a dispute that "even foreigners are confused" In the online survey of this group of photos of cyclists falling, more than 40% people think that the photographer's behavior is beyond reproach. These, perhaps from a certain angle, suggest the public's vague understanding of professional ethics. Fortunately, there are those voices that are firmly opposed.

2. Comment: It is difficult to balance the responsibility of delivering news with social morality.

Yesterday, several news websites reprinted a group of news pictures that took place in Xiamen. This set of photos records the whole process of a cyclist falling down when he hit a puddle on the road in a storm. Although the news events are not big, there are more than 200 comments on the Internet. The focus of netizens' debate is how to balance journalists' responsibility of delivering news and social morality. After reading this group of pictures, the author felt very uncomfortable and understood the grievances of photographers and the anger of netizens. Think about a stale topic again. Is the reporter's duty to supervise public opinion really far from social morality? The duties of journalists are clearly defined in professional ethics. News deals with truth and falsehood, and journalists are of course people who deal with true news and fake news. Faithful records can be said to be a reporter's job. To be faithful, we must be objective, and we cannot artificially interfere with the original occurrence of news events. From this perspective, journalists have a certain spectator status, secretly observing and waiting for opportunities, not only in exposure, exposure and other negative news, but also in some neutral social news. Our reporter is only a recorder of the facts, not a person who interferes with the facts. However, another problem is that journalists are also social people. Due to the limitation of living environment, they must abide by social order and pay attention to public morality. There is a certain distance between journalistic principles and social morality, and even a lot of good news is a difficult choice made by journalists between weighing public morality and recording news, such as 1994, a reporter from Hungry Little Girl who won the Pulitzer Prize for photography. Carter, it's not that he has no public morality, but that he has chosen to be loyal to his career. If he had no sense of public morality, maybe he wouldn't commit suicide because he couldn't bear the accusation of public opinion. Photographers who take photos of wrestling in the rain are not without morality. He put up a sign to remind passers-by that it was not too much for all this to happen after taking pictures. What netizens are dissatisfied with is the visual impact brought by photos. It seems that all the disasters under such eyes are caused by the indifference of journalists. Judging from the anger of these netizens, they undoubtedly highlighted another social problem, and news writing techniques were problematic from the beginning. To solve the problem that journalists' news function and public morality are not unified, only by subverting journalists' professional ethics. 1954 promulgated the first global professional ethics statute of journalism, which stipulated that every effort should be made to ensure that the news accepted by the public is absolutely correct; The lofty standard of professional behavior is to devote oneself to the public interest, seek personal convenience and strive for any self-interest that runs counter to the public interest. No matter what the reason, it is not in line with this professional behavior. This is a contradiction in itself. On the one hand, it is necessary to ensure that the news of the public is absolutely correct, on the other hand, it is difficult to kill two birds with one stone. According to China's news theory, news is spontaneous and cannot be interfered by human beings. According to the author's understanding, this has nothing to do with public morality, that is to say, when news time occurs, public morality is relatively weak for journalists. We should pay attention to netizens' criticism of journalists' morality, but the author thinks that if we really want to criticize journalists' morality, we should turn to journalists' professional ethics, because journalists are loyal to their professional ethics, and all this is thanks to professional ethics. Only in this way can we put out the anger in the hearts of netizens and make them smile at the improvement of journalists' morality.

3. Sina netizen: I think being a man is more important than being a reporter.