These accusations resonated with netizens, many of whom shared their experiences of interning and working in TV and radio stations. They were arbitrarily squeezed by their superiors, who did not give formal contracts or normal treatment, but only made you devote yourself to one thing.
From these messages, it seems that similar phenomena are especially serious in the broadcasting systems of second and third-tier cities. Many young people with journalistic ideals enter the radio and television media and find that their ideals are ruthlessly shattered by reality and they can only suffer hopelessly in pain.
If not for these vivid messages, many people would not believe that those radio and television hosts, those writers and reporters, underneath their seemingly glamorous surfaces, actually have so many blood and tears.
As a former media person, I am no stranger to similar phenomena. I have both personal experience and witnessed the encounter of many peers. But every Time I encounter this situation, there is always a deep sense of powerlessness.
I have always thought that as a media person, sometimes even migrant workers are worse than them. When a migrant worker’s salary is owed, he can still look for the media to defend his rights, but once a media person’s salary is owed, who can he go to?
However, many media people, who are passionate about defending social justice, often have to swallow their anger when they encounter injustice.
In this regard, we can not blame them for being weak, some people are not without resistance. A media friend of mine started to negotiate with his employer last year over a labor dispute, which dragged on for nearly a year and made him emaciated.
In the end, he lost his case in arbitration.
Every time I see these injustices within the media, I am distraught. Some of our media, in their reporting, call for the rule of law and humanity. But this rule of law and humanity does not apply to their own employees.
How ironic it is!
In recent years, the news of migrant workers’ wage arrears, Internet companies’ 996 and other violations of workers’ rights have been repeatedly on the hot search, even attracting attention at the national level.
In contrast, little attention has been paid to the plight of media people’s rights and survival difficulties. This problem is actually growing in intensity today, when media operations are generally in the doldrums under the impact of the Internet.
The result is an increasingly serious brain drain in the media, a lack of good talent, a lack of consistent training and training, and as a result, the quality of some media coverage is not to be complimented, and even repeatedly make jokes.
However, this kind of thing can never be seen as a joke. For the media is supposed to be the last conscience of a society.
The famous newspaper man Joseph Pulitzer once said: “If a country is a ship on the sea, the journalist is the bow lookout. He has to observe everything on the endless sea, examine the unpredictable storm and shoals and reefs on the sea, and issue alerts in time.”
Imagine, when many of our media people can only struggle for survival, even the basic rights and dignity can not be guaranteed, how can they perform the duty of “lookout”? And when we ride on this huge ship, how can we feel safe to say.
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