试析新闻伦理失范背后的现代性因素

Analysis of the Modernistic Factors to the Losing Ethics in Journalism

新闻伦理失范是当今媒介社会的一个重要现象。造成失范的原因并非仅仅是伦理观念的缺失,在更本质的层面,它是社会现代性发展带来的某种必然结果。现代性的"三足鼎"——社会分工、技术和市场逻辑,分别造成伦理责任角色化与评判标准碎片化、伦理内容虚无化以及伦理约束力的消解化。这些受现代性冲击而异化的伦理观念,已经深入新闻工作者和消费者的骨髓,并在新闻领域一次次上演着伦理失范的悲剧。只有清晰地意识到失范现象背后的现代性因素,才是促进未来新闻伦理发展的出路。

The losing ethics in journalism has become a significantly negative issue in our lives. It is the essen- tial consequences of modernity, instead of the lackage of moral sense that plays the crucial role in such kind of phenomenon. The cores of modernity, including social division of labor, technology and the logic of market-con-sumption, have brought an unprecedentedly detrimental influence on ethical standards, attitudes, values, values and binding forces.Moreover, these alienated ideas towards morality has become a natural part of journalists and consumers, which makes the losing of ethics plays over and over again in the stages of the society. Based on the theoretical analysis, the article tells us knowing the factors that brings by modernity is the only way for us to expect the furtherdevelopment of journalism ethics.