Chapter 49 warren journalism

Whenever I see a foreign award-winning news collection, I will be very interested in searching for rough and powerful articles in it, probably because I have never been rough and powerful.As for the fine reports, since I know more, I am not interested in them.Here's what I thought: No matter how exquisite you are, can you still surpass Warren's style of journalism? Robert Penn Warren's "Cold Spring" is one of the most perfect novels I read in college. It tells the story of a young boy who encounters a homeless man in the cold spring and feels terror and haunts it as an adult.The whole plot is like this, he meets him, gets scared, and the story ends.I think the understanding embodied in this is really great: the occasional, not serious experience of fear in childhood actually has an impact on a person's life.However, assuming that this boy is coerced into a murder case after he becomes an adult, which reporter will interview the root cause?

Compared with those literary geniuses, it has to be admitted that journalists are always less able to understand events and people.I believe it is this difference, rather than the difference between documentary and fiction, that makes it difficult for traditional news to have the profound value of novels anyway.In fact, the news named after Warren mentioned in the title does not exist. I just believe that there could be such a kind of news, which is better than all the news we have seen.Unfortunately, "good" is not the criterion for evaluating news.All the media in the world seem to be more concerned about whether the work of journalists is timely, exclusive and informative.If any media truly believes in progressive values ​​and bravely advances the public good, it is the MVP of media.After graduating from college, I gradually realized that this was absolutely true.The public does want political news, reporting of major accidents and homicides, and practical and effective speech, not the more subtle truths behind it.

I used to dream of reporting such news: According to our newspaper, the spring rain in Beijing was misty last night. At around midnight, the lights beside Ping'an Avenue were bright, and an old locust tree died quietly.According to reports from our newspaper, a girl from Dalian Institute of Technology watched a dolphin show yesterday, and suddenly felt like crying, because the moment the dolphins jumped out of the water, she felt that the world was so beautiful.I don’t know if saying this will offend a few journalism teachers, but I still believe that no matter which standard is used, such beautiful and pragmatic news is beyond criticism.But I will probably never write like that, because for this world, we really have responsibilities besides fun.Even if you are as unreasonable as I am, but when you see the weightlifting champion who has been thanked by the country many times and dies of poverty; hear the dull man on the opposite side say that his wife’s monthly income is only 40 cents; see so Too many children are blinded by the hospital, and you give up half-hearted reveries.You wonder where your feet are.You'll feel like shit, but your blood is always hot.

At this time, I will forget about the Warren-style news, and think jealously, now my colleagues XX and XX are preparing to dig someone's shady background, pretending to be wandering in a dangerous area of ​​​​a certain province under the guise of anonymity.I'm proud of them: journalists approach the tide of the times in the rough, not the finer moments.