对政治性新闻发布会中后续问题的探究——以英国政府新闻发布会为例

On Follow-up Questions in Political Press Conference——A Case Study of British Government Press Conference

对记者来说,新闻发布会给他们提供了一个让政客对自己言行负责的机会,这也是新闻业对于民主政治的贡献。通过提出后续问题,记者能够对政客们模糊的回答进行追问,更好地起到自己社会监督人的作用。文章通过对英国政府的5个新闻发布会进行分析,着重研究后续问题与记者先前问题和政客先前回答的关系,以及后续问题在新闻发布会上作用的分类,也是对先前他人对于后续问题所做的有关研究做一些补充,以求加深对于新闻发布会中后续问题的理解。

For the journalists, a press conference is a time when they have the opportunity to hold politicians accountable for their words and actions, which is a task often seen as a democratic function of journalism. By asking a follow up question, a journalist can pursue an evasive answer and perform this watchdog role. By analyzing 5 press conferences from the British Government, this paper fo- cus on the relationship among follow up, initial questions and preceding answers, also including the classification of function of follow up in press conference. The aim of this study is to do a critical examination of the previous research on follow up questions, and al so involves deepening the understanding of how journalists use follow up questions in political press conferences.