Author(s)

Jiayi Yan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China

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ABSTRACT

Since the beginning of the new century, the issue of cultural and value diversification triggered by economic globalization has brought about many public-related issues, among which is the public nature of China's journalism industry. The contemporary Western concept of press freedom has a symbiotic relationship with capitalist political, economic, and cultural systems, playing a crucial role in upholding bourgeois political dominance and economic development within its institutional framework. However, indiscriminately promoting this press freedom concept with strong bourgeois characteristics within socialist countries carries more subversive and deconstructive implications. With the widespread and in-depth dissemination of the contemporary Western concept of press freedom, the profit-seeking nature of news media, the disorderliness of the online space, and irrational modes of expression have varying degrees of negative impact on the public nature of China's journalism industry. News practices often unilaterally pursue economic benefits while neglecting social benefits, making it challenging to showcase the public good attributes of news products; commercial capital penetrates every aspect, leading to a trend in news media development driven by competition and profit. At the same time, the lack of rational understanding among the general Chinese population regarding the essence of Western press freedom undoubtedly exacerbates the severity and urgency of this issue.

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Jiayi Yan, The influence of western news freedom on the publicity of Chinese news undertakings. Media and Communication Research (2024) Vol. 5: 59-65. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2024.050209.

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