法学(新闻学)硕士、《中国民航报》编辑刘玮的硕士论文《视觉新闻初探》提出:视觉新闻是时代的需要,其理由为:第一,视觉新闻是文字新闻与电视新闻相竞争的手段,电视新闻迫使文字新闻学习形象的、立体的、有生动画面的表现手法;第二,从报纸宣传的角度看,视觉新闻可以收到更好的宣传效果,为增强新闻的可信性,有利读者由认识新闻事实的外部形象而认识新闻事实的本质意义,有利于增强新闻的可读性;第三,从读者的角度 Law (Journalism) Master, “China Civil Aviation News” editor Liu Wei’s master’s thesis “Visual News” put forward: visual news is the needs of the times, the reasons are: First, the visual news is the text news and television news competition Means that television news forces text news to learn the performance of image, three-dimensional and vivid images. Second, from the perspective of newspaper propaganda, visual news can receive better publicity results. In order to enhance the credibility of the news, Beneficial readers recognize the essence of news fact from the external image of news fact, which helps to enhance the readability of news. Thirdly, from the perspective of readers