Research On Legalizing The Relationship Between The Government And The Media

The media and the government are the two major sub-systems of many human social systems. The relationship between them is one of many important social relationships. As a platform that the public can realize their right of knowing the truth and expressing their opinions, the media has the function of supervising and restricting the power in the political system. So the relationship between the media and the government is very sensitive and complicated. How to recognize their relationship and make it to be legalized is significant for building a socialist political civilization and building a harmonious socialist society.From certain meaning, the relationship between the media and the government is that of political power and news freedom. In essence, it is the relationship of the people's right of free speech and the government's authority.Authority and freedom are contradictive. The conflict between them has been going through the whole human history. Man is born to freedom, equality and independence, but freedom is inferior to authority. Without authority, there were no real freedom, however, unlimited and absolute authority will invade freedom. Then how can we balance the relationship between them? Hobbes and Locke regard authority as the governors'power, while they regard freedom as individual's right, and then decide what is public power and what is freedom right. That's to say, the essential way to balance power and freedom is legalization.The relationship between news freedom or the people's freedom of speech and the government's authority should be balanced through legalization. The research on legalizing the relationship between the media and the government is to study how to balance the relationship between the people's freedom of speech and the government's authority through laws. It means that their respective right and obligation should be made clear and definite and the media's and the government's behavior should be standardized through news legislation. To draw up legal system is not to ask the party to give up its leadership but to supervise the news better through laws. The main problem to legalize the relationship between the media and the government that should be solved is to ensure the news freedom and to prevent the news freedom from being unchecked. Only through news legislation, which can be ensured to be dispensed, the media can be ruled by law by the government and the party, so that they can be ensured to"work for the public and assume power for the people".