前央视新闻工作者公开信中抨击新闻审查制度

原文地址：http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/12/02/former-cctv-journalist-slams-censorship-in-open-letter/
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A letter posted online in the wee hours Monday by a former producer for China’s state television broadcaster starkly voiced in public the frustrations of a journalist working inside the country’s state-run media machinery.

周一凌晨，前央视制片人在网络上的一封公开信尖锐抨击作为国家媒体的央视所存在的问题。

The letter was written by Wang Qinglei, a producer on well-known China Central Television news programs “24 Hours” and “Face to Face.” It was a response, Mr. Wang wrote, to being fired for having posted online criticisms of CCTV’s coverage of Charles Xue, a Chinese-American investor and prominent social media commentator arrested earlier this year in Beijing on charges of visiting prostitutes.

公开信是央视知名栏目“24小时”和“新闻面对面”制作人王青雷所写。此前王先生曾对央视对查尔斯·薛嫖娼的新闻报道在网络上公开发表批评，这最终导致王被央视开除，王称公开信是对开除一事的回应。

（译注：中文网上的报道都是离职）

Saying at the outset that he left CCTV on Nov. 27 after spending 10 years there, Mr. Wang described his disgust at the broadcaster’s reports on Mr. Xue and other influential microbloggers: “We abused the public institution of media to wantonly bombard an individual indiscretion. Journalistic integrity and professionalism were nowhere to be found.”

11月27日在为央视工作十年后要离开时，王先生描述他对查尔斯·薛和其它大V的报道的反感：“我们用媒体的公器，对一个人的不检点狂轰滥炸……新闻的操守和职业的精神荡然无存”。

The letter was initially posted on Mr. Wang’s verified account on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging service only to be deleted. Numerous other copies online were also deleted. Still Mr. Wang and other Weibo users continue to repost and comment on it.

公开信一开始发表在类似于推特的新浪微博上，已被删除。很多其他的转发也被删除，但王先生和其它微博用户仍在继续转发和讨论。

CCTV didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Mr. Wang didn’t respond to messages requesting further comment.

央视对此事没有回应，王先生也拒绝就此事提供更多评论。

Elsewhere in the letter, Mr. Wang savages the propaganda system that censors news content. He contrasts CCTV’s shining new office tower and expanded global operations with what he says is the broadcaster’s declining reputation and influence – a trend he attributes to tightened controls.

公开信中王先生还抨击了审查新闻内容的宣传制度。他指出有了新大楼有了新设备有了全国全世界的记者站，但我们逐渐所丧失的是公信力和影响力。

The voices we hope to broadcast and the attitudes we hope to express have been silenced over and over again. A leader once joked with me: ‘When you’re choosing topics for reporting, you have to take their measure. Basically, whatever you feel you ought to report or want to report, that’s what you can’t report.’ What a cruel and stifling reality for a journalist!

我们希望发出的声音、表达的态度一次次被夭折。一位领导曾经开玩笑地说：“你们在选报道主题的时候要作下权衡。基本上你们觉得该报和想报的，就是不能报的”。这对新闻工作者来说是多么残酷且令人窒息的现实！

In the space of a year, we get upwards of a thousand propaganda orders. We should ask ourselves: How many of these orders were issued in the national interest, and how many were issued to serve the political and economic interests of some individual, group or leader? And how often did we castrate ourselves as a result of trying to fathom the attitudes of high officials? Our leaders should understand that if the amount of news you can’t report climbs too high, people won’t believe the news you can report – because it’s propaganda chosen with a purpose.

一年里，我们会接到上千条的新闻口径，扪心自问一下：有多少是真正出自国家利益的需要，而有多少参杂了个人的、团体的、领导的——人际、权力以及经济的利益需要？又有多少，是揣摩上意而小心翼翼地自我阉割？我们的领导们应该明白，不能、不让、不许报道的新闻太多了，你所可以报道的新闻也就没人信了——因为那是有选择、有目的的宣传。

The letter earned Mr. Wang messages of support from other journalists, among them Liu Xiangnan, a reporter with the Economic Observer who has a large social media following.

公开信赢得了许多媒体记者的支持，其中包括拥有大量粉丝的经济观察网记者刘湘南。

“Our foreign counterparts lose their jobs for not telling the truth. Chinese reporters lose their jobs for telling too much truth,” Mr. Liu wrote. “Those who lose their jobs for telling the truth are heroes in this trivial little world.”

刘先生写道：“我们的外国记者同行因报道失实而丢掉工作。中国记者却因报道客观事实而被离职。这些因报道事实而丢掉工作的记者们是这个琐碎世界里的英雄。”

Sympathetic voices were dominant on Sina Weibo, whose users tend to be liberal-leaning and fond of criticizing CCTV.

新浪微博上占主导的还是人们同情的声音，这些用户倾向于自由主义，乐衷于批评CCTV。
      
“Wang Qinglei’s letter was deleted almost instantly. That fact in itself illustrates the problem,” wrote Zhou Xiang, a professor of communications at Wuhan University.

武汉大学通信学教授周详（音译）说，“王青雷的公开信刚一发表就被删除了。这一事实本身就说明了问题。”

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Mr. Wang was temporarily suspended in 2011 for his critical coverage of a high-speed train crash near the city of Wenzhou that unleashed a torrent of outrage online and sowed doubt nationwide about the country’s flagship infrastructure project.

据记者保护委员会，王先生2011年因报道温州动车追尾事故而遭停职，他的批评性报道激起很多网民对国家的愤怒，报道还质疑国家一流的基础设施项目。原文地址：http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/12/02/former-cctv-journalist-slams-censorship-in-open-letter/
正文翻译:
原创翻译：龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com 翻译：福禄寿禧 转载请注明出处
论坛地址：http://www.ltaaa.com/bbs/thread-253034-1-1.html

A letter posted online in the wee hours Monday by a former producer for China’s state television broadcaster starkly voiced in public the frustrations of a journalist working inside the country’s state-run media machinery.

周一凌晨，前央视制片人在网络上的一封公开信尖锐抨击作为国家媒体的央视所存在的问题。

The letter was written by Wang Qinglei, a producer on well-known China Central Television news programs “24 Hours” and “Face to Face.” It was a response, Mr. Wang wrote, to being fired for having posted online criticisms of CCTV’s coverage of Charles Xue, a Chinese-American investor and prominent social media commentator arrested earlier this year in Beijing on charges of visiting prostitutes.

公开信是央视知名栏目“24小时”和“新闻面对面”制作人王青雷所写。此前王先生曾对央视对查尔斯·薛嫖娼的新闻报道在网络上公开发表批评，这最终导致王被央视开除，王称公开信是对开除一事的回应。

（译注：中文网上的报道都是离职）

Saying at the outset that he left CCTV on Nov. 27 after spending 10 years there, Mr. Wang described his disgust at the broadcaster’s reports on Mr. Xue and other influential microbloggers: “We abused the public institution of media to wantonly bombard an individual indiscretion. Journalistic integrity and professionalism were nowhere to be found.”

11月27日在为央视工作十年后要离开时，王先生描述他对查尔斯·薛和其它大V的报道的反感：“我们用媒体的公器，对一个人的不检点狂轰滥炸……新闻的操守和职业的精神荡然无存”。

The letter was initially posted on Mr. Wang’s verified account on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging service only to be deleted. Numerous other copies online were also deleted. Still Mr. Wang and other Weibo users continue to repost and comment on it.

公开信一开始发表在类似于推特的新浪微博上，已被删除。很多其他的转发也被删除，但王先生和其它微博用户仍在继续转发和讨论。

CCTV didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Mr. Wang didn’t respond to messages requesting further comment.

央视对此事没有回应，王先生也拒绝就此事提供更多评论。

Elsewhere in the letter, Mr. Wang savages the propaganda system that censors news content. He contrasts CCTV’s shining new office tower and expanded global operations with what he says is the broadcaster’s declining reputation and influence – a trend he attributes to tightened controls.

公开信中王先生还抨击了审查新闻内容的宣传制度。他指出有了新大楼有了新设备有了全国全世界的记者站，但我们逐渐所丧失的是公信力和影响力。

The voices we hope to broadcast and the attitudes we hope to express have been silenced over and over again. A leader once joked with me: ‘When you’re choosing topics for reporting, you have to take their measure. Basically, whatever you feel you ought to report or want to report, that’s what you can’t report.’ What a cruel and stifling reality for a journalist!

我们希望发出的声音、表达的态度一次次被夭折。一位领导曾经开玩笑地说：“你们在选报道主题的时候要作下权衡。基本上你们觉得该报和想报的，就是不能报的”。这对新闻工作者来说是多么残酷且令人窒息的现实！

In the space of a year, we get upwards of a thousand propaganda orders. We should ask ourselves: How many of these orders were issued in the national interest, and how many were issued to serve the political and economic interests of some individual, group or leader? And how often did we castrate ourselves as a result of trying to fathom the attitudes of high officials? Our leaders should understand that if the amount of news you can’t report climbs too high, people won’t believe the news you can report – because it’s propaganda chosen with a purpose.

一年里，我们会接到上千条的新闻口径，扪心自问一下：有多少是真正出自国家利益的需要，而有多少参杂了个人的、团体的、领导的——人际、权力以及经济的利益需要？又有多少，是揣摩上意而小心翼翼地自我阉割？我们的领导们应该明白，不能、不让、不许报道的新闻太多了，你所可以报道的新闻也就没人信了——因为那是有选择、有目的的宣传。

The letter earned Mr. Wang messages of support from other journalists, among them Liu Xiangnan, a reporter with the Economic Observer who has a large social media following.

公开信赢得了许多媒体记者的支持，其中包括拥有大量粉丝的经济观察网记者刘湘南。

“Our foreign counterparts lose their jobs for not telling the truth. Chinese reporters lose their jobs for telling too much truth,” Mr. Liu wrote. “Those who lose their jobs for telling the truth are heroes in this trivial little world.”

刘先生写道：“我们的外国记者同行因报道失实而丢掉工作。中国记者却因报道客观事实而被离职。这些因报道事实而丢掉工作的记者们是这个琐碎世界里的英雄。”

Sympathetic voices were dominant on Sina Weibo, whose users tend to be liberal-leaning and fond of criticizing CCTV.

新浪微博上占主导的还是人们同情的声音，这些用户倾向于自由主义，乐衷于批评CCTV。
      
“Wang Qinglei’s letter was deleted almost instantly. That fact in itself illustrates the problem,” wrote Zhou Xiang, a professor of communications at Wuhan University.

武汉大学通信学教授周详（音译）说，“王青雷的公开信刚一发表就被删除了。这一事实本身就说明了问题。”

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Mr. Wang was temporarily suspended in 2011 for his critical coverage of a high-speed train crash near the city of Wenzhou that unleashed a torrent of outrage online and sowed doubt nationwide about the country’s flagship infrastructure project.

据记者保护委员会，王先生2011年因报道温州动车追尾事故而遭停职，他的批评性报道激起很多网民对国家的愤怒，报道还质疑国家一流的基础设施项目。