隐性采访的合法性问题探讨

Probing into Legitimacy Issue of Covert Coverage

隐性采访是非公开身份或采访目的而进行的收集或披露新闻素材的方式,它能真实地采访到公开方式难以获得的新闻素材,将社会丑陋现象曝光,满足了受众的知情权,增强了舆论监督的力度,因而受到各新闻媒体的普遍青睐。但同时,隐性采访是否合法,作为舆论监督手段是否值得提倡的疑问也在学界存在。隐性采访有一定的法律基础,对隐性采访可以有条件地合法化,即隐性采访必须在法律允许的范围内,在道德的约束下采用,必须对其进行严格的限制和规范。

Covert coverage is the coverage and publication of news stories without informing the identity of the reporter and the purpose of the interview. As it is capable of catching true news stories hardly obtained by open mode, it is capable of exposing ugly phenomena in society to satisfy public right to information and it strengthens the supervision by public opinion, covert coverage has been widely favored by all news media. However, whether it is worth advocating as a measure of supervision by public opinion there is doubt in academic circle. There is certain basis for covert coverage which can be conditionally legitimized, i.e. covert coverage must be limited within the range allowed by law and adopted with the restriction of ethics, and it must be restricted and regulated strictly.