今年的《新闻记者》第二期上,有一位来自太平洋彼岸的老报人批评我们报纸的文章写得比较硬,希望多点软新闻,读后颇有同感。新闻有软硬之分,这不是近年才说的事。我能读报时,已是“阶级斗争为纲”喊得越来越响的年头,每天翻开报纸映入眼帘的便是:“念念不忘”、“时刻牢记”、“掀起某某高潮”、“打好某某会战”之类的标题,读完报纸,神经总是绷得紧紧的。但那时候又不能不读,做学生三天两头有时事测验。后来又碰上“天天读”、“天天批”,不读就是不忠,而不忠则是大逆不道的。这些年虽然不用硬着头皮读报了,但积习难改—一日不读报便会忐忑不安。不过又往往是“长报短读”,千余字的文章,眼睛一扫而过,四大版的报纸,顶多刻把钟解决。否则,真要一字一句读的话,神经照样会 In the second issue of this year’s “News Journalist,” one old newspaper reporter from the other side of the Pacific criticized the hard-pressed articles in our newspapers, hoping to give more soft news and share the same feeling after reading it. The news is divided between hardware and software, which is not something that has been said in recent years. I can read the newspaper time and it is the year when the class struggle is the key link. Every day I open the newspaper and get a glimpse into it: “never forget”, “keep in mind”, “set off a certain climax” “Fight battles” and the like title, read the newspaper, the nerves are always stretched tight. But at that time can not fail to read, do the students three days and two have a test of time. Later they run into “read every day”, “every day batch”, not read is infidelity, and infidelity is outrageous. Although it is not necessary to read the papers briskly all these years, it is hard to change what they have learned. However, they are often “long newspaper short reading,” a thousand words of the article, eyes swept away, the four major newspapers, at most, the clock to solve the clock. Otherwise, if you really want to read a word, the nerve will still be