论作为“中介”的新闻

On News as "Intermediary"

理论新闻学是在清理和回答“新闻是什么”的过程中,不断推进和深化新闻学术研究的。在既往关于“新闻是什么”的探究中,主要以还原主义方法在“事实与新闻的关系”中界定新闻,或者以价值论视野在“新闻与主体的价值关系”中为新闻划界,这是从“新闻源流”和“新闻需要”出发对新闻的两种典型的理解方式。因此,抓住“人与新闻的关系”这一理论新闻学(也是新闻学)的总问题,突出“人”在整个新闻学中的核心地位,就能够提供一条理解新闻的新思路,即将“新闻”视为“中介”性存在,认为新闻是沟通人与事实世界最新变动情况的中介,新闻是勾连人与人之关系(主体间)的中介;总体上说,新闻是人展开实践交往、生活交往的中介。对新闻“中介”性存在及其功能的宏观揭示,不仅促使我们对新闻形成更为系统全面的把握,也将在一定程度上促进理论新闻学研究视野的进一步拓展。

It is in the process of clearing up and answering"what is news"that theoretical journalism constantly promotes and deepens the academic research of journalism.In the previous research on"what is news",it mainly defines news in the"relationship between facts and news"by reductionism,or delimits news in the"value relationship between news and subject"from the perspective of axiology,which are two typical ways of understanding news from the perspective of"news source"and"news needs".Starting from the general problem of"the relationship between people and news",this paper highlights the core position of"people"in the whole journalism,and provides a new way to understand the news.That is to say,"news"is regarded as the existence of"intermediary".News is the intermediary to communicate the latest changes between people and the real world,and news is the link between people and people.In a word,news is the intermediary of people′s practical communication and life communication.The macroscopical revelation of the existence and function of news"intermediary"not only promotes us to have a more systematic and comprehensive grasp of news formation,but also to a certain extent promotes the further expansion of the research field of theoretical journalism.