关于新闻价值问题,近年来新闻界已有不少论述,这里,笔者仍从新闻价值的客观性这个立场出发,提出一个“层次性”问题,和新闻界同行们共同商讨。新闻工作者在采编过程中,常常遇到这种情况:甲事实是新闻事实,乙事实不是新闻事实,所以,甲事实能成为新闻,乙事实不能成为新闻。理由何在呢?就在于甲事实本身具有足以构成新闻的某种素质,而乙事实却没有。这就是说,从新闻这个范畴来看,甲事实有区别于乙事实的特质,这个特质就是新闻价值。人们归纳的新闻价值的几个要素,象新鲜性、重要性、趣味性、接近性等等,如 In regard to the issue of news value, there have been many discussions in the press in recent years. Here, from the standpoint of the objectivity of news value, the author proposes a “hierarchical” issue and holds discussions with counterparts in the press. Journalists in the editing process, often encounter such a situation: A fact is the news fact, B fact is not news fact, therefore, A fact can become news, B facts can not be news. What is the reason? The fact is that A itself has enough quality to compose news, but B does not. That is to say, judging from the category of news, there is a characteristic that is different from the fact of Party B in fact. This characteristic is newsworthy. Some elements of the news value that people summarize, such as freshness, importance, interest, proximity, etc.