寻找未来

      其实原本不想这么快写下这个题目的,尽管这是到香港两个月来我一直在迷茫的问题,尽管这个问题永远不会有明确的答案。但是今天看到clytze的留言,突然有些很悲伤的感觉,不光因为我们,也因为journalist这个职业本身。
 
      隐约记得大一时,像每个刚刚踏进大学满怀希望的小孩儿一样,我驻足在金光灿灿的金融专业前,突然觉得不满足。我很认真地对自己说,我想去哥伦比亚读传媒。不知道为什么,哥伦比亚对于当时的我,闪耀着更甚于耶鲁哈佛的光辉,很大程度上,也许因为传媒的魔力,也许因为那里的普利策新闻奖。那是我第一次自己有强烈的愿望想要出国,也是第一次告诉自己我想学传媒。
 
      缘起是很偶然的,也许因为爱读书,爱文字,爱生活,爱大千世界人生百态,传媒在我眼里成了最美妙的平台。于是大二开始忙忙碌碌准备托福GRE,准备申请准备个人陈述,大三,在挑选大洋彼岸的学校和专业的时候,我彻底地放弃了经济,用大学时代的几本杂志跟千里之外的教授证明着我对于传媒的热爱。其实,谁知道呢,那时候的我,哪怕是现在的我,真正了解传媒吗?那时,我甚至不知道“传媒”和“新闻”究竟有什么样的差别。
 
      阴错阳差地,我读了自己报的唯一一个Journalism的专业,(其它的一概是mass media)。来这里之前,我不知道香港大学新闻研究中心是什么样的背景,不知道这里有什么样的老师,只是在研究方向上看到“China News”,看到钱刚。JMSC带给我很多惊喜,尽管他们并没有给研究生开设中国新闻的研究方向,甚至完全没有中文的授课和指引,一切都是英文媒体的教学模式。但是在这里,我终于明白了什么是journalism, 同时,借助着香港的平台,我终于明白了中国大陆、香港还有某些西方国家的新闻生态环境。
 
      但,恰恰是在JMSC收获的最多的这两点,却带给我无限的矛盾。
 
      Journalism是一种精神,崇高的,让人流泪的。但也许在现实世界里,很多时候我们真的只能把它当成一种职业,并不美好,并没有光环,甚至很肮脏。
 
      就像上次陆晔教授在港大的演讲一样,我们在现实中看见的journalist,只是那些不得不拿着一个又一个"envelope"当做自己微薄的小费,跟上级打着一个又一个擦边球,说十句违心的溢美之词只为了在角落的地方说出一句残酷的真相的,生活在风险和罪恶里的人。坏消息永远是新闻的最佳主题,灾难,黑幕,死亡,真相,新闻记者总是要面对沉重的极限,并且在那背后掀出更大的黑暗。
 
      某某地方水灾了,成千上万人失去生命,去报道吧,你用尽了心血把人间炼狱的悲惨传达;
      然后,你发现,水灾不是天灾,是因为某某长官某某乡长的腐败导致的一系列工程漏洞,成千上万人的生命原来根本只是人祸,去报道吧,在你悲戚痛苦的笔下再加上愤怒和控诉;
      然后,你发现,愤怒无法被传达了,真相无法被揭露了,有些东西,被掩盖的很伪善,但是很完美。去报道吧,写给自己看,悲伤,痛苦,愤怒,这个时候你还剩下什么?绝望?还是信仰?
 
      这不是事实,只是个假想的例子,但也许对于很多优秀的记者,这只是他们碰到的无数“艰难”中的一件。在安替的博客链接上,我的注释是——新闻圣徒。不为别的,也许他们并不成熟,并不能够深刻地意识到潜藏在事件背后的游戏规则。但,他们勇敢,他们知道,记者不是学者,记者的责任是喊出真相,不管它多么不合时宜,只要它是真相。就像安徒生笔下的那个小孩。但真相却永远是难堪的,皇帝又怎么能接受自己没有穿衣服的现实呢?其实就连皇帝的子民,也一样是不能接受的啊。
 
      在来香港之前,我从没有意识到,做个优秀的记者,原来是这样残酷。像clytze说的,我相信,无论是mainland还是hk,还是西方某个发达国家,差别并不会像想象中的那么大。
 
      但整个社会又何尝不是这样呢?我还记得tony在那篇陆晔教授的回复里说,往深里去看,中国的哪一部分社会不残酷呢?医疗、法律、金融,更不要说政治——人命关天的领域深处都包藏着你我所不能忍受的黑暗。也许做一个媒体人,尤其是新闻媒体,只是有幸,接触到了这所有的全部。
 
      今天站在社会面前最后的保护伞下,我仍然看不清楚自己未来的路。我仍然不知道在媒体这个宽泛的概念里,自己究竟要选择什么样的发展。但是有一点,我认真地希望,无论在哪里,都能保有一颗始终善良的、热情的心,永远不要让它冷,永远不要让它失去希望。我坚信,有些东西不是profession能决定的,有些东西取决于做人本身。
 
      生我养我的社会,黑暗是它的一部分,阳光是它的另一部分。如果揭露它的黑暗是我的责任,那这一定也源于对于它的阳光,我最深刻的热爱。
 
 
PS. Clytze, thanks for your moving share, I just put the song out for everyone passing here. Wish every mercy can be blessed in this world.
 
First of May
Bee Gees

When I was small
And christmas trees were tall
We used to love and others used to play
Don’t ask me why
But time has passed us by
Someone else moved in from far away

Now we are tall
And christmas trees are small
And you don’t ask the time of day
But you and I
Our love will never die
But guess we will cry
Come first of May

  

2005年11月10日

寻找未来 已经有 8 张纸条儿了

  1. 丫头 说:

    偶然路过~香港是我一直都想去的地方,那里怎么样呢?

  2. 丫头 说:

    偶然路过~香港是我一直都想去的地方,那里怎么样呢?

  3. clytze 说:

    Dear Ann,Nice day, isn’t it? Seated at my dest in the office, I can sea the beautiful sea through the window. Every day I will sit here, watching the sea, having a cup of coffee and doing nothing for a short while.I am going to Fanling today for an interview about a pig farmer and his pig. It is usual. These days I have beried myself in the sea of bird flu, streptococcus Suis and Disney’s attendance…the whole world is sick so why I have to keep myself clean?Yesterday my story, Discount fail to draw rush of locals, became the headline of the City section. And it was the first time editors here told me that I had done a very good job.I got the number of Disney’s attendance, which the company and the government refused to tell and which almost all newspapers in HK are eager to know.I got it by cheating the security guard, saying I was a visitor who wished to take her old grandfather there. I easily got into talk to him and finally got him to tell the number, without knowing I was a reporter.Then the report came out and the whole security section will surely be blamed and I was told the one who talked to me was likely to lose his job.I can imagine his face when he is told the stranger who had a sweet talk with him is a reporter. She has cheated him. She came to him with purpose.This is how the trust, which men place in one another, destroyed.I have no idea whose fault it was–mine or my company’s or Disney’s–and just feeling painful and can not find an excuse to escape.Like a bird trapped in a cage I want to fly away, and this time just at the moment I thought my dream were going to come true that I was shocked by the fact that what I met was a higher wall and a bigger cage. The world has never been open. It is a shame to tell you I am a person like this but I still wish to.The song I gave you reminded me my past. It seemed as if I had come back to the past when I was still a little girl, running with all my strength, either by myself or with my friends. Can you remember?Sometimes we were just walking, and suddenly, without any reason, started to run. We even had no idea where we were running to. Perhaps it is the only one moment in our life which we do something without a purpose. We spend our entire life running after different things, money, reputation, power, responsibilities, love, comfort…but not at that moment. At that moment we ran through the wind, ran through the field, and ran through the dream.Last night I dreamed of running again, alone.

  4. apple 说:

    是该称呼你若若还是安安呢*-*呵呵,之前我大概是在baidu上检索某个名词的时候无意中链接到这里的,然后我就花了将近一个半小时的时候在浏览你的日志,原谅我的冒昧,正因为此,我现在竟一时想不起来当时我是要检索哪一个名词的,呵呵。留个脚印吧,大概以后我会经常来踩咯求学愉快哦

  5. 艾墨 说:

    哈哈谢谢沐和不会游泳的小鱼,香港是很特别的地方,有些让你欲罢不能的魅力,很值得一来啊:)(俨然一副主人的样子,汗,其实偶也是过客,呵呵……)沐:我经常在搜索诸如港大这类的字眼时搜索到类似的博客,嘿嘿,无论如何,欢迎一下阿~~

  6. qing 说:

    今天17号了,距离你写这篇blog正好一个星期,不知道现在你是否依然保持着对阳光背后的热情和热爱。不知道为什么,看到最后一段,我直觉就吟起“为什么我的眼里常含着泪水,因为我爱这土地爱得深沉”。对记者,感觉很复杂,既愤怒有时候的胡说八道,又理解他们承受的无奈。不过不敢想象以后你的记者生涯会是如何的惊心动魄了:)

  7. 唐子 说:

     在安安这里,可以找到很多慰藉心灵击中心灵的东西。
     
    喜欢若若安。
     
    http://tangzi0102.blog.sohu.com

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