Chapter 23 Enlightenment from Coal Boss Killing Reporter

The "official announcement" by the coal boss of the "hostile relationship" with the reporter probably happened in January 2007 when the "Shanxi Coal Boss Killed a Journalist Case" caused a national sensation. When Lan Changcheng, an employee employed by the Shanxi reporter station of "China Trade News", and his colleague Chang Hanwen went out to interview a coal mine, they might have taken a "road of no return".When they were identified as "fake reporters" because their press cards did not have the seal of the "State Administration of Press and Publication", their fate was completely handed over to the coal bosses.

Some media said that at that time, the other party gathered many people to beat them in turn. After forensic identification, Lan Changcheng was hit on the head with a blunt object many times by others, resulting in craniocerebral injury and death. Why did the coal boss kill the reporter? The reason is simple. For coal bosses, they hate and fear reporters. What they hate is, "If you expose me, it means that you have cut off my source of income." Unfortunately, because this coal mine was originally a "black hole" (relevant department's subsequent investigation found that), if it is reported by the media, this "coal boss" will become "no boss".

So, I will "clean up" (of course not kill) you. So far, the problem of "black mouth" has surfaced again. According to insiders, the "objective" existence of "black mouth" in the local area is already an indisputable "objective" reality.In fact, according to insiders, the frequent occurrence of local mining accidents is directly related to the existence of a large number of unlicensed small coal mines.The "factual existence" of small coal mines is of course closely related to "interest possession". In the eyes of coal bosses who only care about making money, the miners' life dignity and existence value have given way to black coal.

However, some "black holes" were able to start work smoothly, and some small coal mines that had been closed continued to "resurrection" after escaping the "gust of wind". The reason for this was related to the secret protection of some local department officials.This is also the fundamental reason why the "problem" small coal mines continue to "problem". In some places, after the "rectification limelight" is over, these illegal small coal mines are "in full swing", and this has become a local "scene". We know that the boss's "natural" "fear" of "journalists" is actually a concrete manifestation of "guilty and timid" and "ghosts".

If your coal mine is a "white hole", you can operate legally, pay taxes according to the law, stand upright and not be afraid of shadows, and earn money in an upright manner, why should you be afraid of "reporters" to "expose" you? For "reporters", you illegally open "black holes" to get rich, and you are so fat, so I am jealous, so I get "pink eye disease".At this time, some so-called "journalists" had already thrown away the professional ethics and news interview discipline issued by the relevant state departments. In fact, depending on the ability of these "journalists", the "explosive power" of the "exposure" of their media is also very limited, and their central idea is nothing more than one word: money.The so-called "exposure" is nothing more than taking advantage of the momentum of their respective media to "pull the tiger's skin and pull the banner" to "fool" these "bump coal bosses" who have never left their homes and never seen the world.This also reflects the embarrassing status quo of Chinese journalism in a specific economic environment.

In the current domestic news industry, there are indeed some low-quality and corrupt elements who frequently extort and blackmail some grassroots "problem" coal mines and individual operators, and use the news gathering rights bestowed by the party and the people as a tool to make money for themselves .There are also some snobs who saw the aura of the people's reporter and the "benefits" of being a reporter, and simply pretended to be a full-time reporter to "cover" "problematic" companies to satisfy their personal desires. Thus, in real life, such a scene appeared: Once an accident occurred in the coal mine, those people ran faster than the government departments.

An insider in the industry pointed out an "indicator" for judging "true and fake reporters": Generally speaking, anyone who asks the coal boss for money as soon as they meet is a "fake reporter", and a real reporter strictly abides by the principles of journalists. Professional ethics, they mainly come for the "objective facts" of unpaid news, not for the "paid" news.