摘要
古典自由主义在经济上的诉求主要体现为保护私有财产,倡导自由市场和自由竞争,其核心是对自由市场的信念以及在自由市场和自由竞争中人类伦理道德的信念。近代以来兴起的新闻传媒业是社会经济活动的一个门类,这一经济活动同样不能游离于普遍的市场法则。新闻传媒业作为一个承载权利和义务的精神产品生产行业,确保其置于多元化的经济结构中意义尤其重大,因为只有这样才能确保意见的自由市场。自由主义新闻业依靠向特定受众提供信息、思想和观点而获得生存机会,自由市场具有自我平衡的功能,它可以兼容各种不同的信息、思想和观点,媒介所有者的逐利本质并不会造成媒体的堕落,这不仅因为人是有理性的,人类在整体上来说总是会对包括新闻产品在内的精神文化产品作出理性的选择,而且还因为人类的伦理道德与市场本身具有内在的统一性。
Classical liberalism,in terms of economy,is to protect private property and to propose the free market and free competition.Its core is a belief in free market and human morality in free competition.For the liberal thinkers,news media industry that prospers in recent years is one of the sectors in social economic activities,which denies the possibility of being free from the general market principles.Modern Western liberal economists emphasize economic freedom,as it is the guarantee for political freedom.They also emphasize the function of economic freedom to divide the power.As an industry for producing spiritual products,which carries the right and obligation,media industry should be put into a pluralistic economic structure to function as an important organ for a free opinion market and the guarantee for the carrying out of the institutional rights of the citizens.Liberal journalism gains chances of survival by offering information,opinions and thoughts to readers.Free market can regulate itself,compatibalize different information,opinions and thoughts,and balance the demand and supply in opinion market.The profit-making nature of media owners will not cause the degradation of media for the rationality of human beings with which readers choose spiritual products including media ones,and for the intrinsic unity of human ethics and market.
出处
《浙江大学学报（人文社会科学版）》
CSSCI
2008年第5期136-142,共7页
Journal of Zhejiang University:Humanities and Social Sciences
基金
西南政法大学校级资助项目(2007-XZRCXM002)
关键词
自由主义
政治自由
经济自由
市场逻辑
liberalism
political freedom
economic freedom
market logic
