追逐与先导——论电视的大众传媒角色

在消费文化充斥荧屏的当下,科学地定位电视的大众传媒角色迫在眉睫。电视作为与大众最具亲和力的传媒形态,大众接受性构成其生存属性,因之,电视的大众传媒角色应定位于对大众趣味的追逐。然而,电视又具有意识形态属性,承载着意识形态的教育、先导大众的功能,电视的超越性、引领性的角色定位更不应缺失。电视要追逐大众并不被大众所淹没就必须掌握先导,而要发挥其先导作用又必须关注大众的需求,电视的追逐与先导是辩证互补的关系,统一于电视的大众传媒的角色之中。电视制作人是实现电视追逐与先导传媒角色的实践者,大众的精英与精英的大众是电视制作人的综合身份。

Chase and Pilot——On Television's Role as a Mass Medium

Consumer culture occupies TV screens,and it is high time to scientifically position TV's role as a kind of mass media.The acceptance of general public constitutes TV's existence property,and therefore TV's role of mass media should be the pursuit of public interest.However,TV also has the property of ideology,bearing the function of ideological education,so television's transcendence and pilot role is indispensible.TV should follow the mass,but not to be overwhelmed by the mass,so it must play its leading r...