Today's Saying Story Selection 3

Author: CCTV Today's Law Program Team
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Legal Lunch for the Chinese People. On-site murder case, 13-year mystery case, mysterious website, passionate temptation. Record the progress of China's rule of law, teach the people to know the law, learn the law, and abide by the law through specific and vivid cases. Wang Xinzhong, the producer of Today's Law, once shared a story—7 years ago, he walked out of the west gate of the TV station, laughing and chatting, stepping over a young man's "ground petition." Such things had long been commonplace for them. On Monday, when he went to work, he heard that the young man had hanged himself from the crooked tree at the west gate. From that moment on, he said that the moment he stepped over the "ground petition" became a lingering sense of guilt that he couldn't shake off for years. That guilt has continued to this day. I understand that a person's sense of responsibility should have an anchor. Legal programs of different levels have different tasks and functions. Today's Law should be an intermediate course—you can't make it too high-level, or it would become too unapproachable. In fact, 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 between the program and the audience; the other is the so-called "audience is god" argument, where the audience dictates what they want to see. I don't agree with this. The audience is definitely not god, and neither are we the creators. The relationship between creators and the audience can be seen as both opponents and friends. Only a peer-to-peer perspective can make them friends, enable dialogue, and foster mutual exchange. So, who is god? In legal programs, "the law" is god, and the program is god. In this way, our perspective relative to the audience shifts to an equal perspective.