批评性报道的侵权问题与法官的法律尺度

The Judge' s Tort Judgment to Critical Reports

对批评报道经常涉及的谴责、贬斥态度呈现上,法官理解与掌握的法律尺度比编辑、记者更倾向于意见、情绪表达的理智与分寸。媒体从业者对报道"客观性"的尊重更多地采取"新闻构成要素基本真实即可"的行业标准,法官面对媒体因实际条件限制而难以达到理想状态的客观、真实时,倾向于将苛刻的客观性要求置于优先地位。对批评报道侵权纠纷中媒体败诉率相对较高的现象,法官总体倾向于将之归为媒介从业者相关认识不足及法律意识欠缺等所致。

Judges being visited have clear different attitudes from correspondents as to how to express the writer＇s condemning and denouncing in reason and propriety. The media professionals are more likely to adopt the yardstick that ＂the contents of news should be basically true＂ in respecting the objectivity of reports. In objective reports, judges are inclined to make excessive demands to editors and reporters when objective facts are not easily observed because of conditions. With respect to the relatively high losing - lawsuits rate of media, judges tend to attribute the phenomenon to the media professionals＇ lack of related knowledge and legal consciousness.