中国的媒体是国家资源,是党和政府的喉舌,是联结人民群众的纽带和桥梁,是文化产业的重要力量。媒体的功能是传播而不是“审判”。然而,随着传媒竞争愈演愈烈,不少媒体为了收视率,日渐忽视对新闻事实的追求,“媒体审判”现象应运而生。什么是媒体审判“媒介审判”一词最早出现于美国,指新闻媒介超越正常的司法程序对被报道对象所作的一种先在性的“审判预设”。笔者认为,通俗意义上的“媒体审判”是指:媒体凭借自身强大的传 China’s media is a national resource, the mouthpiece of the party and the government, a link and bridge linking the masses of the people and an important force in the cultural industry. The function of the media is to spread rather than “judge”. However, as media competition intensified, many media outlets gradually ignored the pursuit of news fact for the sake of ratings, and the phenomenon of “media trial” came into being. What is the Media Trial? The term “media trial” first appeared in the United States, referring to the media’s “trial presupposition” for the reported subject beyond the normal judicial process. The author believes that the popular sense of “media trial” means: the media with its own powerful biography