Revisit 2015: Research on Ethical Anomie of Traditional Mainstream Media from the Perspective of Field Theory —Take the Beijing News Report on the Stampede on the Bund as an Example
Journalists are not only practitioners and demonstrators of social morality, but also
disseminators and guides of media ethics as social values. Through the content analysis of the 2013-
2020 Media Ethics Research Report, it is found that the indicators such as the subject, principle,
problems, content and form of media ethics anomie have fluctuated greatly for the first time in 2015.
Exploring the change logic, we can see that the media ethics anomie is not only under the control of
its own professional construction, but also under the multiple control of politics, economy, society
and culture. Bourdieu’s field theory focuses on the relationship between macro social background and
individuals through the research subject. This paper takes the field theory as the research perspective,
and the Bund stampede report of the Beijing News, which triggered the discussion on media ethics
in 2015, as the research case, to explore the change logic of various indicators of media ethics issues
around 2015 from a macro perspective in the complex news field, that is, when the media cannot timely
observe and reflect on the field change and the corresponding capital acquisition and loss, It is easy to
cause media ethics events that affect the credibility of the media and social harmony by still relying on
habits to carry out news practice that lacks professional quality, deviates from functional orientation,
and separates from cultural values, with a view to providing governance reference for media ethics
anomie.