国家新闻出版广电总局最近通报了中国特产报社新闻敲诈案,吊销了《中国特产报》的报纸出版许可证。这可能是第一家此类媒体,但不可能是最后一家。曾经被国人寄予厚望的舆论监督,现在被一些传统媒体和网站用来敲诈生财,这不是新鲜事,但是其愈演愈烈,而成为令中国新闻界蒙羞的丑闻。清除害群之马,当然有必要。更深层次的需要解决的问题,是媒体如何完善退出机制。我们知道,中国传统媒体实行事业单位市场化运营已经三十年,大部分媒体成为自收自支的准企业,同时又很可能挂着国家机关下属单位的头衔。这种 The State Administration of Press, Publication, Broadcasting and General Administration recently notified China’s specialty newspaper about the extortion of news and the publication of the newspaper’s publishing license of “China’s special product newspaper.” This may be the first such media, but it can not be the last one. The media oversight, once high hopes of the Chinese people, is now used by some traditional media and websites to extort money from their employers. This is nothing new, but it intensifies and becomes a scandal that shames the Chinese press. Of course, it is necessary to remove the black sheep. The deeper problem that needs to be solved is how the media can perfect its exit mechanism. We know that it has been 30 years since most of the media became self-supporting and quasi-enterprises in the market for the operation of public institutions in China’s traditional media. And at the same time, they are most likely to hold the title of subordinate units under the state organs. This