我到人民日报还不到五个月。五十年代,我在地方报纸做过一段领导工作,后来不做报纸工作了,但经常看报。正反两个方面使我们深深认识到,报纸工作实在是太重要了。任何一种舆论,如果没有新闻作媒介,是很难传播出去的。毛主席曾讲过,凡是要推翻一个政权,总要先造舆论,革命阶级是这样,反革命阶级也是这样。干革命一靠笔杆子,一靠枪杆子,笔杆子是为枪杆子开路的,是为革命服务的。舆论先行,攻心为上,如果没有舆论支持,什么事情都难以办成。今年春夏之交,我国发生了动乱,最后在北京发生了反革命暴乱。这场动乱和暴乱为什么会发生在现 I went to the People’s Daily in less than five months. In the 1950s, I did some leadership work in local newspapers and later did not do newspaper work, but I often read the newspapers. Positive and negative aspects make us deeply aware that newspaper work is really important. Any kind of public opinion can hardly be spread without news. Chairman Mao once said that whenever we want to overthrow a political power, we must first create public opinion. This should be true for the revolutionary class and the counter-revolutionary class as well. In the revolutionary revolution, one pens, one pith gun, one for the revolution was served by the pen pens. Public opinion first, heart to heart, without the support of public opinion, everything is difficult to accomplish. At the turn of the year, there was turmoil in our country and finally a counterrevolutionary riot in Beijing. Why this turmoil and riot happened in now?