社会新闻的定义和地位 “社会新闻”这个名词,在过去一段较长时间里,我国新闻界较少提及。 笔者认为可以这样来给社会新闻下定义——社会新闻是侧重报道世态人情、社会道德风尚、人们业余生活及某些社会性事故、犯罪的新闻。 这个定义主要是从报道内容上来讲的。事实上,我们也许还可以从报道角度上给社会新闻另下定义。但根据我国的国情,如此下定义可能会引起诸多争议,造成一个模糊概念,难以指导工作。 社会新闻内容丰富多彩,我们似乎可以这样给它分成几类:社会生活新闻,社会道德风情新闻、社 The Definition and Status of Social News The term “social news” has been mentioned less frequently by the Chinese press in the past period of time. I think it can be so defined to the social news - social news is focused on reporting the worldly human feelings, social morality, people’s amateur life and some social accidents, crime news. This definition is mainly from the content of the report. In fact, we may also define the social news differently from the point of view of coverage. However, according to China’s national conditions, such a definition may cause a lot of controversy, resulting in a vague concept that makes it difficult to guide the work. Social news content is rich and colorful, we seem to be divided into such categories: social life news, social morality news, clubs