1979年我国颁布了《中华人民共和国刑法》,当时很少有人会把刑法与新闻报道联系在一起。几年后,上海的一起诽谤案,使刑法中的“侮辱罪”、“诽谤罪”在新闻界同仁眼里不再陌生了。 1983年上海《民主与法制》杂志第1期发表的一篇文章《二十年“疯女”之谜》在社会上引起了强烈反应,也带来了一场长达数年的诉讼。两位记者因“故意捏造和散布足以 In 1979, China promulgated the “Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China,” and very few people at that time linked the criminal law to news reports. A few years later, a libel case in Shanghai made the “crime of insult” and “defamation of sins” no longer unfamiliar to journalists in the criminal law. In 1983, an article published in the first issue of the “Democracy and Law” magazine in Shanghai “The Enigma of the Mad Girl in the Twenty Years” aroused a strong social reaction and brought a lawsuit which lasted for many years. The two reporters were "deliberately fabricated and distributed enough