《中国青年报》评论部副主任曹林在2012年7月号《两岸传媒》刊文,认为需要警惕媒体设置的伪冲突议题。面对一条新闻时,媒体和记者习惯于发掘事件的冲突点,来提起舆论的关注和讨论。部分媒体为了吸引眼球而夸大和臆造冲突,为了营造争议氛围而扭曲事实本身,从而将复杂问题简单化,将多元的价值和复杂的事实简化成一个虚假的两难冲突,然后在“虚假两难”的伪议题中赢得点击率。有的刻意夸大冲突,选择性地报道两边最极端的观点,制造本不存在的 Cao Lin, deputy director of the commentary department of China Youth Daily, published an article entitled “Cross-Strait Media” in July 2012, which warned of the need to guard against the issue of false conflicts in media settings. In the face of a piece of news, the media and reporters accustomed to finding the point of conflict in the incident to raise public opinion concerns and discussions. Some media exaggerate and conjecture conflicts in order to attract attention, and distort the fact in order to create a controversial atmosphere, thus simplifying complicated issues, simplifying diverse values ​​and complex facts into a false dilemma, Fake issues won in the click rate. Some deliberately exaggerate conflicts, selectively cover the most extreme views on both sides, and create non-existent