Before I knew it, I wrote a hundred articles in my news business column "News Practical Battle". Starting from now on, it will be serialized on Toutiao.
has been writing news for more than ten years. Now if you don’t write news, you have begun to summarize the business skills of how to write news. There is no need to say the unspeakable difficulties in it. You will naturally understand what you can understand, and you don’t need to bother explaining what you don’t understand.
Some people understand, but they will inevitably feel a little confused in their hearts: the general trend is already like this, and they are still doing these useless work and overestimating their abilities.
When I was young, I first entered the world. Everyone I met was strange. Everyone was a senior. Everything was fresh. I had only a slight understanding or was completely ignorant. I had no experience in people's experience, and I had no confidence. I was worried or even trembling in everything. I could only focus on doing what I could, for fear of not doing well. Now I am middle-aged in the blink of an eye. I dare not say that I have seen countless people, but I have indeed experienced many people and things. Seeing countless seniors who have met or even become familiar with each other fall into the abyss, I now have to be more at ease and be yourself and ignore the expressions of others. Everyone walks their own path, lives their own lives, and achieves their own lives.
Whether it is misleading people's children or not knowing the current affairs, stick to the path you choose, walk in the direction you identify, feel at ease and at ease. I don’t have the mentality of gaining anything, but do what I like and feel that I should do. If I do it, I will gain it, and if I do it, I will feel satisfied.
Many articles about writing news business have low reading rates. In today's fashionable words, there is not much traffic. Many years ago, I was firmly convinced that traffic is important, but it is by no means the only thing that is important. I have never planned to be a trendsetter in the crowds, so I don’t expect too many people to applaud. No extravagant demands, no demands. Of course, they are all ordinary people who eat grains and grains. If there are people walking along the rugged trails and encouraging each other, it is naturally good.
People are most afraid of not believing in what they believe in, and they are also afraid of looking forward and not believing in what they believe in, and they are also afraid of looking at the mountains and dreaming that they have familiar flags everywhere on the hills, and they are also afraid that they cannot last long in one direction.
has been wandering in the world for twenty years. It is not long or short. It has not saved up a lot of money in its family property, nor has it been cultivated to achieve great success, and has ended up being calm and at ease. I know whether this kind of life is good or bad. I know whether this kind of life is bitter or sweet. It’s best to be at ease with everything.
Therefore, many business articles can only be read for three or two thousand, but they still cherish them. They still feel that they should keep writing and not give up easily. Texts such as
are not expected to be published. Just like my book "I Actually Want to Make Progress", most of them are handwritten on the Internet and have never expected it to be published. In the world of the world, there was a person who was destined to see it and felt that it was a little benefit to him. He didn't even have to tell me about this little benefit, and I felt satisfied. What's more, there are often readers in real life who say that they have some inspiration after reading an article or a sentence, which is a great comfort.
It is undeniable that some words cannot be concealed with some preaching tone and tone. It's okay, these articles are not for everyone to read. These articles about writing news are for beginners who are studying and writing news. Those veterans who have long had their own swordsmanship are naturally disdainful to read these superficial articles that I often call "basic skills". Even if novices feel uncomfortable after reading it, they can pinch their noses and stop reading at any time. This is the freedom of all of you. And I don’t force anyone to read it or how to modify it. There will definitely be such uncomfortable words in the future.
A few years ago, I cursed and cried for an apprentice, but I still don’t feel any guilt. It is never a humble gentleman. It is difficult to inherit some basic skills and take into account the demeanor and pose in elegant and generous postures. He does not engage in personal dependence, does not engage in interest exchange, does not engage in any unspoken rules, and almost never asks his apprentice to forward and promote his WeChat official account and public account articles, thinking that this is already gentle enough.
Today's texts are considered as supplements to these 100 articles and are also a confession.
1. Details of giving up
When writing news as a reporter, it means collecting information, identifying information and then publishing information, but not all the collected information must be written into the article. Many people may have different opinions, thinking that journalists are information providers and should not artificially delete the collected effective information based on personal likes and dislikes and self-censorship.
I do not intend to respond to different opinions, but only talk about two things I have experienced personally.
In early summer that year, I received a tip: a group of officials in Hunan suffered sexual extortion. After confirming that the news was true, I immediately reported to the editor, "I have always done very serious questions recently. This time I want to do a question that is a bit 'three vulgar'."
After listening to the general case introduction, the editor agreed to take a trip to Hunan.
Things are actually very simple. A group of Hunan officials encountered the same routine of sexual blackmail: a young woman who claimed to have met took the initiative to make an appointment. Then, eat and go to bed. Hotels are different, but the same pinhole camera is placed on the head of the bed. The happy scenes of the two were recorded throughout the whole process. I thought it was a love luck, but I didn’t expect it was a love disaster. Not long after, officials received the "action movie" disc and an account starring them. A man said on the phone that if he did not transfer the specified amount of RMB to the account, he would send the CD to the Commission for Discipline Inspection, his family members or make it public online.
After some investigation, it can be confirmed that at least 13 officials fell into a trap and obediently followed and spent money to eliminate disasters. Only one official in the county-level city under Hengyang , called the police after receiving the extortion call and "reported to the organization on his own initiative." This blackmail gang was arrested soon and six members were arrested. What's strange is that only three people were prosecuted and two were sentenced. The two women who seduced officials on the phone were not held legally responsible.
At the end of 2013, when the Hengyang Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection investigated the case, he found that other officials had also been photographed with sex videos. One of the officials bribed the case and tried to delete the video about him, so he re-invested the case. After digging deeper, six local officials involved were dismissed, removed from office and public notice.
In Hunan , Chenzhou , Yongzhou and Xiangtan , all officials were extorted by the same gang, but the results of the handling vary from place to place. Some officials were only "seriously warned", some were dismissed, some were dismissed, and some were demoted. The leniency and strictness caused a lot of discussion. Most of the sources of disaster relief money paid to the extortion gang were not investigated. In addition, most of the discipline inspection departments that are familiar with the matter expressed their dissatisfaction with the media's interviews. During the interview with
, it was learned that the case involved a large number of officials, the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection had the overall information, and the extortion gang had been prosecuted by the procuratorate to the court. So they contacted or went directly to the Hunan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, Chenzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, Hengyang Municipal Procuratorate, Hengyang Shigu District Court, Shigu District Procuratorate, Hengyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Changning Municipal Public Security Bureau, all refused to interview one by one.
The director of the Political Work Office of a district procuratorate in Hengyang later learned that I had been to the court and called to warn: No reporting is allowed, otherwise if the secret is leaked, you will be held legally responsible.
official is so unfriendly that I set restrictions on interviews everywhere and even refused to interview and threatened reporters, but I still stayed at the forefront.
In the interview, I met a party involved, the deputy director of a certain unit and a deputy department-level official. He was blocked in the office by me, and sat opposite him helplessly, asking and saying something.
Before leaving, I asked him what the extortion had had on him. He said unhappily: I can’t think about that much, my daughter is about to take the college entrance examination, and I just want to let the child take the exam well. I don't remember the original words of
very clearly, the general idea is that.After hearing this, I decided not to disclose the person's identity and name publicly, and to anonymize him in the report.
The interview was the only party involved who interviewed face-to-face. There was no official arrangement or introduction from informants. It was blocked at home. It was neither necessary to do information transactions with the official nor to consider the social relationship of informants. The party involved was blocked in the office and admitted that he was a party involved in the news. He also recorded the sound on the scene, and wrote it out by name and no problem at all.
But I feel that I can't do this. Although the name and position of the person involved in the news is certainly the responsibility, but if it is made public, what will happen if his underage daughter sees it? Will the child be ashamed of his father's stain, will he be ridiculed by classmates and neighbors, and will he go home and have a big fuss with his father? Any of these may happen, which will affect innocent children's college entrance examination.
Judging from the influence after this report was published, it is correct not to disclose the name and position of the parties involved. After this report was published, Man.com was reprinted. Junior high school classmates who had not contacted for more than 20 years contacted me because they saw this report, which shows how powerful the influence is.
Another time, an official was investigated and punished in a prefecture-level city discipline inspection commission. When the case handlers introduced the case, they disclosed a detail: the official who was investigated and punished had an affair with his wife and sister and gave birth to a child.
There are many jokes about brother-in-law and aunt among the people. It will definitely attract a lot of traffic when written. Moreover, it is introduced by the case handlers of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, so there will be no risk when writing it. I finally gave up on this detail of
. The reason is very simple: the child is innocent. If his life experience is made public, the child will face many problems in his future growth. He will be discriminated against, mocked, and treated differently from an early age...
When a reporter writes news, it is a social behavior. Social behavior is nothing more than law and emotion. Law cannot be discounted, and people cannot be without emotion.
October 23, 2020
