中国媒体自出现以来，从不对读者负责。他们先是对政府负责，后来伟大的商业化时代来了，人们争相投身其中，对广告商负责

人们目睹着公共生活中的不公正的加剧，看到了权力与金钱的傲慢，被迫接受一种赤裸裸的社会达尔文主义，我们生活在一个强者缺乏同情心，而弱者缺乏正常的表达渠道的时代，普通人对此深感无力，不知如何应对，于是强者变成了傲慢，而弱者则充满了偏见

短短一個月內，台、港、中的新聞界本身都因為不同的事件而成為了新聞主角。稍微分析一下各起事件中的角色反應，恰可得見三地媒體景觀(mediascape)的縮影。以下簡單整理，請幫忙補充與指正

中国传媒记者一直在一种十分恶劣的环境中艰难地生存着，即便是在商业界，舆论的权柄已经日渐落入资本及寡头们的手中，在这样的时刻，第一财经因一则报道而被要求天价索赔，便显得十分的耐人寻味

互联网圈内的互掐，不就是那么回事么，所谓产业，也是泡沫下浅浅的一池水，所谓的新闻理想，就这么没了

我就要当一个偏心的人，有时候假装中立去劝架，其间一定是要下黑手的，趁乱掐一把强者的鸡 巴。如果文章写得不够好，那一定是偏心偏得不够

如鲍德里亚所说，恐怖主义是对准沉默的大众的一种“残忍戏剧”。但是，尽管如此，我们不能因此怀疑媒体在推动人类进步征程中的作用，就像我们不能因为麦卡锡主义曾经盛行一时而否认美国议会的价值。显然，在我们关注媒介与权势时，更应该关注媒体背后的黑暗力量。在我们遥控电视时，更要了解我们究竟被谁遥控？

Because if the First Amendment can no longer be counted upon to keep reporters out of jail, invoking the Fifth Amendment privilege—refusing to disclose the name of a confidential source because doing so could be self-incriminating—may well succeed in protecting both the source and the reporter.

The function of news media during a time of emergency is to gather as many facts as possible and present a version of the truth that is better researched than casual text messages. Any law that hinders the process of sorting the facts from the rumors is a bad law.

有位大牛以前就有文章说，文哥的一大极坏的后果就是领导们也包括普通人都再也不相信群众，尤其不相信他们的好意，不相信集体的智慧，就是那个collective wisdom。这都是运动中群众的表现造成的

這些新聞如果能夠以影音典藏（video archive）的方式，提供大眾註記與討論、以及新聞當事人做出澄清，應該能夠不再遺忘一切，至少能夠讓一些新聞製造過程中的生產問題浮上檯面。搭配對「自律」機制的反省，這樣就可以比較讓新聞生產到消費當中的過程有開放、透明的機會…

The press and the government generally start out from opposite corners in such cases. The government would like us to publish only the official line, and some of our elected leaders tend to view anything else as harmful to the national interest.

精英舆论在今天的反智的中国社会中，得到的唾弃远比尊敬要多

Whatever you do, don't mistake the decline of newspapers with the decline of journalism. Much of what we're witnessing is the delayed right-sizing of newspapers and newspaper publisher and editor egos in the multimedia age.

Or perhaps it's possible that their reports on Hawking are like Faye Wong having a daughter or the appearance of a Super Girl? Perhaps they've all become paparazzi, and don't understand the fundamental professional ethics of journalism, don't understand that they ought to respect an internationally-renowned scientist, a rarely seen highly disabled person, that they fail to provide him with even basic protection! Were those photographers all reporters

The lynching of Dan Rather is a cautionary tale of how news is made in the USA -- and unmade -- and topics permissible during an election. The story that cannot be reported is not about George Bush's special treatment but about the special treatment of the specially privileged.

Franz Beckenbauer must be very busy going from one game to another, but he seems to be interviewed by mainland Chinese media every few days. He does not speak Chinese, but in the Sports Weekly exclusive interview, he can name the individual players on China's national team

学界爱造概念，动辄“＊＊性”、“＊＊化”，俨然是性病、白化病泛滥，想想都怕

I'd have editors and the copy desk study Cockburn's seven-page [More] classic and glue copies of it to reporters' foreheads as they ship out to catastrophe territory, at which point all would recite this motto: "Kill a clich? Save a reader!"

Media companies feel they have to lure us in by blending news and entertainment into a single tasty, calorie-filled but nutrition-free product. Once hell-raisers, they are becomng clownmakers