西方搞市场经济已有几百年历史。笔者翻查了许多西方新闻学著作,没有发现“新闻是商品”、“读者是上帝”的提法。但类似主张在西方的确存在,有些新闻媒介也的确如此做,可是西方新闻界绝大多数人,特别是严肃的新闻从业人员不同意这些主张,甚至鄙夷这些主张,在实践中也决不按这些主张干。 The western market economy has been hundreds of years old. I searched a number of Western journalism books, did not find “news is a commodity,” “reader is God,” the reference. However, similar claims do exist in the West, and some news media do exactly the same. However, the vast majority of the Western press, especially the serious journalists, disagree with these propositions and even contempt these claims and never follow these in practice Advocate dry.