最近,笔者在阅读《失实新闻百例》(华中工学院新闻系申凡等编)一书时,对五十例失实新闻进行了统计、分析。这五十例失实新闻中:记者采写的有七篇;记者和通讯员合作采写的有四篇;通讯员采写的有三十九篇,占总数的百分之七十八。通讯员采写的三十九篇失实新闻中,纯属编造和虚构的,有十五篇;“合理想象”导致情节失真的,有九篇,添枝加叶、任意拔高的,有十五篇。通讯员采写的新闻失实的为什么这么多?笔者认为,至少有以下三个原因: 一、追名逐利。他们为了使自己的稿件能 Recently, while reading the book “One Hundred Examples of False News” by Shen Fan, a journalism department at Huazhong Institute of Technology, I conducted a statistical analysis of fifty false news. Of the fourteen false news reports, there were seven reporters’ writing and writing; four were co-written by correspondents and correspondents; and thirty-nine were written by correspondents, accounting for 78% of the total. Of the 39 untrue news items that the correspondent has written, purely fabricated and fictitious, there are fifteen articles. There are nine articles that add up to the slightest telling of truth because of “reasonable imagination”. Why do so many news misinformation taken by correspondents? The author believes that at least the following three reasons: First, chase for profit. They can make their own manuscripts