How the media reports of suicide (I)

 How the media report suicide
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2010-06-30 16:12
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II: Reflections on the suicide category reported (on)
Du Ting: Please Mr. Hu Lihan first introduced to us under the Hong Kong media in some news reports of suicide practice.
Huli Han: I 20 years ago to study journalism school, the teacher told us that there are several questions that can not be done, not reported, yellow, violence, suicide, because after this news out of other people can imitate. a lot of suicide infectious, so we better not do suicide news. when we simply accept this theory of his, but when we found this theory a journalist too simple, because we do a news that some people commit suicide, do not just watch the suicide itself, is also reflected back to see what the problem of suicide. Suicide is not only reflected in the individual problems, but also social and institutional issues. So we should look at from a macro point of view some of the problem. As an example, each days there are hundreds, even thousands of people petitioning in Beijing, they are subject to a number of local government aggrieved, can not be resolved to petition the central authorities to finally take them to some of the methods of suicide. They that commit suicide, especially in Tiananmen Square, suicide, suicide in the near Zhongnanhai, we reported do not report? If I said from the traditional concept, we can not be reported because it may affect others to use the same method to solve the problem. But if this case, we certainly have to report, and why? because our newspaper is not his actions and motivations of suicide, but suicide is reflected behind the problem, which is a lot of people are concerned about social issues, reflecting the petition system defects system is not perfect, the lack of fairness and justice.
revisit another example, such as the recent problem of Foxconn. Foxconn's first case in the first issue, the fifth case, we have not reported the sixth case, because we do not receive more complete reason, that they are due to personal reasons, relationship problems, so we certainly do not report. But in the eighth, ninth case, we find that because of management problems inside the factory, workers wages issue So the eighth, ninth case after we began to send reporters to follow up, they certainly are not to cover the suicide itself, not how to jump, jumped from a few floor, how about after the jump. We focus on why so many people jump reported floor. 30 years of reform and opening up 30 years ago many people went to Shenzhen to work, why? is for a meal, a few hundred pieces, three five hundred only. But 30 years later, our young people in many university graduates to the factory workers can not find work, although wage has risen to nine hundred thousand, but now the price can not be more than 30 years ago. And most important issue is now before the work is not so simple, he is not only to a meal as simple as have enough to eat will not solve their problems, they need future need satisfaction at work live work, and dignity. So now our boss, our boss, the boss of Taiwan to change the times if not followed , along with progress progress we Chinese, or follow the reform and opening up 30 years ago, the mode and system is working their factories, will lead to such problems. So we focus on reporting this matter, of course, very good results, and finally more than just us There are other media have done in this area were reported. The most important is the formation pressure of public opinion, especially in Taiwan is very clear that Taiwan's media, the public Gou Piping badly, finally, Gou changed his approach. So if We are not a single report by the original concept of suicide to do, so do not report suicides, then we certainly wrong. If we do not report there is no pressure of public opinion. This is also reflected in other issues of suicide, is often what people tell us that things are not reported What problems reported. For example, the mainland news we do not only hear the sound in mainland China, Hong Kong has also heard some voices saying that you do not tell too many negative things reported to the overall situation, you have reported negative things that affect our harmony. but if you do not report the problem will solve it? can not solve, the problem will increase. Foxconn is a very simple example, have reported the subsequent public pressure forced the Foxconn change. All in all We as a reporter on the case of the check should have an independent thought, not a theory can be set in all aspects, for each thing to be thinking, what we have reported the consequences later, at the social impact of the future will not Well, the future is not reported the problem can be solved.
Lu Luwei: I inserted one, two weeks before the suicides and attempted suicides in Hong Kong newspapers reported find many, one jumped from the mall, and then jumped to her daughter until , and then again two weeks ago also has a jump. In dealing with this when the news of suicide, is not Hong Kong's print media and electronic media are not the same standard?
Huli Han: Yes, 90 years Hong Kong a way a foreign tabloid to do a newspaper, came out to the Hong Kong media ecology has changed. them from a utilitarian starting a newspaper business, made a lot of print media is now the object of imitation, it is helpless. Indeed, Hong Kong, there is now a sick print media, including the order to let more people read the report more suicide news, relatively speaking, our electronic media like TV, radio checks better.
Lu Luwei: electronic media before the audience should than newspapers, print media a bit more, but now because of the network, more network magazine after the print media, things can spread through the network, spread faster, so the effect will not affect its ?
Hu Lihan: not the same as Hong Kong and the Mainland,UGG boots clearance, I think the network has developed rapidly in the Mainland, Hong Kong is not,UGG bailey button, relatively speaking, people still meet in the traditional media now, although sometimes a little bit error rate news, but the total its validity is still good, its authority is also quite good. but the Mainland authority of the mainstream media is basically not high, thus forcing the mainland to see the network news people, so with the Mainland, Hong Kong Network News Network News the speed of development vary greatly, which is one reason.