风险社会语境下的新闻自由与政府责任

Freedom of the Press and Responsibility of the Government:in the Context of Risk Society

在风险社会中,新闻传媒处于异常尴尬的位置,它的风险预警功能受到质疑而风险放大功能得到强化,这就导致新闻传媒与政府的关系需要在风险社会的语境下加以重新审视。在西方,有一部分学者跳出新自由主义的思维,提出国家和政府并非自由的天然敌人,奥巴马政府信息规划办主任、著名法学家凯斯.桑斯坦(Cass Sunstein)甚至提出"温和的自由主义的专制主义"概念。本文试图指出:在新闻自由问题上,中国与西方的历史基点不同,貌似同归,实则殊途。第二,中国的新闻体制改革依然需要进一步深化,政府对传媒的传统控制方法亟需改进。

In the risk society,news media is in an awkward position.Its risk preventative function is always under suspicion,as well as its risk-enlargement function has been emphasized.As a consequence,the relationship between the news media and the government needs to be taken into consideration in the context of the risk society once again.Out of the Neo-liberalism pattern,some western scholars recognized that the nations and governments were not the natural enemies of Freedom.Cass R.Stunstein,a famous American legal scholar,who currently is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration,even created a new word called ＂Libertarian Paternalism＂.This thesis attempts to point out that firstly,when it comes to the issue of press freedom,it is the historical background difference that separates the west and the east.Secondly,the China＇s press system reform still needs to be further deepened and the government＇s traditional regulation measures for the media needs further improvements.