Chapter 4 Dance on the Tip of the Knife

Evil is the deepest darkness.My ten-year career as a political and legal reporter was like a ten-year war of resistance.Desperate unveilings again and again are like desperate fights.In ten years, the cyan of my life has been infiltrated with too many colors, which should be different from others.For ten years, I have fought and fought silently and stubbornly for the dream that was ignited by the blood of youth.The pressure and anguish that he bears alone seem to be endless—that is the blackness that has fallen into the abyss of darkness. I have no diploma and no background. Facing a strange and noisy city, I fight the world with my bare hands. I dream of living a beautiful and decent life. I also want to make my youth and dreams more beautiful. Beautiful dream gone, I have nothing left.After several struggles and hard work, I, a farm boy who never went to college, finally became a political and legal reporter pleading for the people.In the face of the weak, I ran around; in the face of grievances, I appealed; in the face of evil, I raised my pen, but in the end I was completely defeated.Looking back suddenly, there are only faint sorrow and quietly dried tears, as well as the unwillingness and struggle deep in my heart.

All the past and all the things that are happening are like burning time, leaving only smoke and ashes.Yes, I am just a little-known little reporter, a wandering reporter who has never been paid attention to, and an outsider surrounded by all kinds of slander and rumors.In the bustling city and in the impoverished countryside, my efforts and persistence only hope that the indifference, cowardice, ignorance, ugliness and evil in the world will pass away with the wind. My appeal and struggle only hope that the disadvantaged groups can enjoy fair and kind treatment. The uncompromising critical attitude stems from the distressed and indignant cries and appeals of vulnerable groups, from their wronged souls.As long as you are a journalist with a conscience, when you participate and experience, you have to be heavy.

In the spring of 2004, a reader in Jiangsu once left a message on my mobile phone: Reporter Shi, if you hadn’t spoken out and acted righteously, I don’t know when I will see the light of day when I am suffering.It is your care and help that warms the bright colors of my life... For such a thing, I would rather dance on the tip of the knife, dangerous and painful.There is no deeper cruelty than this grace. The conscience of individual media and reporters has long been obliterated by secularism and power and money. Falsehood, kitsch, "blowing the trumpet and carrying the sedan chair", flattering people, worshiping "Marshal Zhao Gong" when they see him, even confusing black and white, slandering, slandering... These terrible evil spirits are like A small group of unscrupulous reporters are corrupted like ghosts.Ignoring civilians and vulnerable groups has become a terrible reality in the current Chinese media world.Not long ago, Li Xiguang, a professor at Tsinghua University, pointed out sternly: "Where is the nobility of a reporter? It is to stand on the side of the broadest public interest and the disadvantaged class!" Fengyun reporter Wang Keqin was also heartbroken for this: "Money bugs and bureaucrats are There are two major malpractices in today's media industry. The media should safeguard the conscience of the society!"

A real media person will never get lost in the direction of the news because of one or two flies.Because I told the truth and exposed the shady scene, even though I have been attacked, retaliated, and slandered by my own newspaper and individual colleagues, even though I was forced to go to court as a self-prosecution, I have never been in the face of evil. No compromise was ever made.My mission and responsibility are like a rainbow across the sky after the rain. "The sense of responsibility, professional conscience and sense of mission of Chinese journalists will not be worn away by individual journalists' violations of law and discipline. We will be loyal to our professional ideals and make efforts for social justice." Liu Chang, the chief reporter of Youth Daily, expressed our aspirations.

I stand on the tip of the knife and start a kind of sharpness; I stand on the air outlet and start a kind of examination.The same is true for a colleague who has a "mistress", so that the other party became angry and used extremely bad methods to attack me, as well as the visible and invisible black hands behind him.Slander stings me like an arrow; slander stings me like a poisonous weed, together with my benevolent parents who work in the countryside.For five years I languished in this diabolical web, suffering and fighting for myself.This is my case of the first reporter's private prosecution case in the country.The melancholy and pain, helplessness and indignation it left me cannot be described in words.This lawsuit that has been widely circulated has consumed too much energy and suffered so much abuse and slander, which is unprecedented in the history of Chinese journalism.

In the face of evil, evasion is the most terrible thing. I am both a witness and a victim.Personal self-esteem, the reputation of the reporter, the sanctity of the law, especially the humiliated and bullied Chen mother and son who have nowhere to turn, and Deng Shixiang, a colleague who has nothing to fear and is still at large, all the more determined that I must win this news The determination of the lawsuit.Like the countless wronged people I have interviewed, I have not given up trying to find a solution with the law—for myself, and for the real victim.Patience is a kind of cowardice, complaining is useless, and if you want to go to hell, you may complain that it is too dark.Only then did I deeply understand why He Jianming's works are always strongly critical and why so many reveal the dark side; why Lu Yuegang's works are always full of sense of crisis; Life, incorporation of Lu Xun's grief and indignation into investigative reports; why Fan Changjiang, a senior journalist, always calls himself a warrior... Why do these cultural warriors and journalism warriors value journalists' humanistic awareness, critical awareness, and spiritual awareness so much? ...

In the face of the "dangerous wind howling, the turbid waves emptying out" in the society, journalists with a sense of justice will feel Fan Zhongyan's sadness of "sorrow, slander and ridicule, with desolate eyes"; Of course, it is impossible for a reporter to find a sword to seal the throat like a chivalrous man and cut down those who do evil. The reporter can only raise the pen in his hand and use the supervision power endowed by the party and the people to supervise them without hesitation and criticism. Because I uncovered some shady scenes, and because I spoke some truths for the weak, I was once called a knight.But I am ashamed, ashamed and hesitant...

Five years ago, when I was attacked by the relevant departments in the South for exposing too many shady scenes, when I was maliciously hurt and slandered by my colleagues on the same front, when I was forced to go into exile in the capital with my body covered in pain At that time, I still couldn't break free from the web woven by black and white. Journalists don't "look out" when the weather is calm. What they "look out and monitor" is not a flat river, but rapids and rapids, and more events that are most dangerous to human survival and development. It is dangerous to use the responsibility of journalism to raise the flag for the common people, which has made me experience threats, insults, bans, framing, exile, hunting and illegal detention many times during my ten-year news journey. I felt the loneliness and desolation of running wildly at the end.However, I didn't stand still.As a reporter, in the face of darkness and ugliness, I have no choice but to attack sharply.

Some people say that anti-corruption and anti-criminalism is a "dance on the tip of the knife". Front-line reporters who implement public opinion supervision, when they shuttle to the first scene of the news, the career of the reporter begins on the tip of the knife. During the Journalists’ Festival last year, the Beijing Youth Daily reported in an investigation report titled “Being a Journalist Turns out It’s Dangerous” that according to statistics conducted in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, 58.4% of the interviewees believed that the profession of journalism was a high-risk one. Occupation; 65.5% think that it is necessary for insurance companies to introduce "journalist insurance".In today's world, journalists are second only to soldiers and police as a high-risk occupation.Yes, maybe "journalist insurance" can guarantee the medical expenses of journalists, but who can protect them from psychological destruction?

It is not uncommon for journalists to be beaten and scolded, and it is not news that journalists have been imprisoned for writing articles: Shanxi Youth Daily reporter Gao Qinrong offended local bureaucrats by reporting fake water conservancy projects, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for various crimes "Zhengzhou Evening News" reporter Yin Xinsheng was imprisoned unjustly for helping a trafficked child return home. The head of the China Journalists Association called it "this is the biggest, most serious, and most typical attack on persecution of journalists since the founding of the People's Republic of China." Event!"; Cai Jinhai of People's Daily "Earth" was sentenced to prison for reporting "poppies" in the Ruian Mountains...

Since last winter, relevant government departments from the central government to the local government have taken a series of effective measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers. What about journalists?Why hasn't there been a law dedicated to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of journalists? At the beginning of 2004, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China promulgated the "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China (Trial Implementation)", which for the first time established the important position of public opinion supervision in the form of a special chapter in the party's documents; September 21, 2004, Beijing Official red-letter documents require governments at all levels not to say "no comment" to journalists; recently, the country is also drafting a "Government Information Disclosure Law," which proposes that media reporters can sue officials if they are denied normal interviews.But does this mean that the news media and journalists can unimpeded when implementing public opinion supervision? In response to the difficult situation of supervision by public opinion, Professor Wang Weizhong, a deputy to the National People's Congress, pointed out sharply: Beating and scolding reporters and obstructing interviews are the most common methods used by corrupt officials. Means to treat journalists!For this reason, he even issued such an appeal many times during the two sessions: China's introduction of a news supervision law is very necessary! I hoped and longed, and the depths of my heart were illuminated by a beam of holy light. The world is clear. Ishino 2004 golden autumn in the suburbs of Beijing