Today's Saying Story Selection ②: 2005 Edition

Author: CCTV "Today's Legal Talk" Program Group
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: I have a question many people want to ask—when did the concept of "law" appear in your life and consciousness, from when and from what kind of event? Was it a street argument, a visit by a police officer, getting involved in a lawsuit, or something else? Wang Xinzhong, the producer of "Today's Legal Talk," once shared a story—seven years ago, as he walked out of the TV station's west gate, he casually stepped over a young man's "ground lawsuit" (a makeshift protest). Such incidents had become commonplace for them. On a Monday, he heard that the young man had hanged himself from a crooked tree near the west gate. From that moment on, he said the act of stepping over the "ground lawsuit" became a lingering guilt that he couldn't shake off. That guilt has persisted to this day.
I understand that a person's sense of responsibility needs an anchor. Different levels of legal programs have different tasks and functions. "Today's Legal Talk" should be considered an intermediate course—it shouldn't be too high-level, as that would make it too exclusive. In reality, there are often two types of relationships between TV programs and audiences: one is where the program educates the audience, creating a top-down or bottom-up dynamic; the other is the so-called "audience is god" approach, where the audience dictates what they want to see. I don't advocate for this. The audience is definitely not god, and neither are we, the creators. The relationship between creators and audiences can be seen as both adversaries and friends. Only a peer-to-peer perspective allows for friendship, dialogue, and mutual exchange.
So, who is god? In legal programs, "the law" is god, and the program itself is god. In this way, our perspective relative to the audience shifts to an equal one.