Marxist view of journalism is an open and scientific theoretical system with truth and scientificity, and it is our action guide in journalism. In today's background and environment, where more and more attention is paid to online public opinion supervision, we should guide journalists to consciously enhance their political awareness, overall awareness and sense of responsibility, especially to strengthen their moral awareness, firmly establish lofty professional spirit and ethics, always take social benefits as the highest criterion, be closer to reality, life and the masses, be down-to-earth, be pragmatic, resolutely put an end to false news, and consciously safeguard the good image of journalists. Taking stock of recent online public opinion supervision events, such as the director of Jiangning District Housing Management Bureau, Dong Feng, secretary of Xuzhou quanshan district Municipal Committee, Yang, former member of the Standing Committee of Wenzhou Municipal Committee and secretary of Lucheng District Committee, and other officials were all exposed online. Online public opinion supervision has its positive side, but the "human flesh search" used in online supervision often makes the most private information of individuals public and spreads others' privacy at will, which not only involves the moral bottom line, but also impacts the legal provisions for protecting citizens' privacy. However, in the "hide-and-seek" incident, the government invited netizens to participate in the investigation, which was previously regarded as the first innovative form in China, but was questioned by the legal profession and considered illegal. Zhu, a lawyer of Shanghai COSCO Lantian Law Firm, said that according to the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Regulations on the Administration of People's Republic of China (PRC) Detention Center, only public prosecutors and lawyers can enter the detention center, but no one else can. Another legal person who did not want to be named also believed that it was not in compliance with the law to organize ordinary citizens to enter the detention center for investigation. "From a formal point of view, there is suspicion of replacing the law with power." To exercise network supervision, we should pay attention to strengthening legal awareness.
As the news media of online public opinion supervision, we should first fully realize that the power of public opinion supervision is given by the party, the government and the people, not a tool for individuals or small groups to seek personal gain. It is necessary to stress political awareness, overall awareness, and enhance social responsibility. Secondly, in the event of online public opinion supervision, the reporter's interview should be thorough, meticulous, objective and comprehensive, and the comments should be fair and accurate; Editors should strictly control the manuscripts, and manuscripts with unclear facts, improper comments and subjective speculations should not be published in newspapers to avoid possible legal disputes. The "pan-media" characteristics of the network make critical reporting and public opinion supervision unstoppable. The public can break through the information barrier through numerous network "nodes", websites or webpages with different attributes, different regions and different owners. There are many channels and choices for criticism and supervision, so it is very difficult to put an end to criticism and supervision and force public opinion to guide and control it. How to find the combination of traditional media criticism and supervision and network public opinion supervision and better promote the standardization of network public opinion supervision needs a sense of balance.
On February 26, 2008, a newspaper published a news that "the salary was improperly turned into a defendant" and was immediately reprinted by the website. A foreman failed to ask for wages and had a dispute with the wage-seeking workers. The police came forward to mediate and still failed to recover their wages. The foreman let dozens of migrant workers sit on the road, blocking the traffic. As a result, he was sentenced to six months' criminal detention for disturbing traffic. However, the report did not mention what happened to those who were owed wages. Some readers and netizens have put forward the view that "the arrears of wages are improperly punished, and the arrears are not paid back". Obviously, it is difficult for migrant workers to accept this kind of report, so various voices on the Internet come and go.
In fact, it is consistent to embody humanistic consciousness and respect news laws in network public opinion supervision. Being comprehensive and objective is the requirement of news law and the basis of successful humanized reporting. There is no contradiction between them. In the supervision of network public opinion, it is necessary to effectively improve the balanced guidance ability of the media. For example, when highlighting a major factor of public opinion supervision, we should also give consideration to secondary factors, especially negative factors. Only in this way, the report of online public opinion supervision will be more objective and closer to the truth, and it will also leave more space and room for follow-up reports and possible accidents.