“报禁”期间成舍我何以办报不成?——以相关言论抗争事件为中心的考察

Why Couldn’t Cheng Shewo Run a Newspaper during the Period of “Newspaper Ban”?——An Investigation Centered on the Related Speech Protests

在香港观望了两年多后,成舍我怀着重新开创新闻事业的目的来到台湾,但是整个"报禁"期间成舍我终无创办报纸。考察成舍我去台后最初十余年的经历,发现他主要参与了两项社会活动:一是抨击"报禁"政策,为言论出版自由奋斗;二是积极参与党外运动。这些活动忤逆了当局的意旨,其中尤以他作为主角参与的一些言论抗争事件为最,令当政者深以为忌,是导致成舍我办报活动失败的重要原因。探究成舍我赴台后办报不成的原因,从中可见"报禁"政策实行后新闻界的抗争和当局的压制,双方的博弈关系,是"报禁"期间台湾舆论生态的重要表现。

Cheng She-wo came to Taiwan with purpose of re-establishing his journalism career after more than two years’ wait-and-see period in Hong Kong. However, he never succeeded in starting a newspaper during the "newspaper ban". By examining his experiences in the first ten years in Taiwan, we have found that Cheng She-wo mainly participated in two social activities: First, he vigorously attacked the "newspaper ban" policy and strived for the freedom of speech and publication. Secondly, he took an active part in the non-Party movements in Taiwan. These activities disobeyed the intention of the authorities, among which the most important reason for the failure of his newspaper running activities was that he participated in a number of sensational speech protest events as a leading protagonist that made the politicians deeply afraid. In exploring the reasons why Cheng Shewo failed to run the newspaper after he came to Taiwan we can see that the protest of the media and the suppressions from the authorities after the implementation of the ban policy, and the game relationship in suppression and anti-suppression between the both sides are an important feature of the public opinion ecology in Taiwan.