何谓特性?《现代汉语词典》释为:“某人或某事物所特有的性质。”推而言之,新闻特性即为新闻所特有的性质。新闻所特有的性质是什么?长期以来,理论界对此见仁见智,难以达到共识。究其原因,与研究方法恐怕不无关系。本文试图运用系统科学方法来审视新闻具有哪些特有性质。一系统科学认为:客观世界任何一个具体事物都是材料、能量、信息的统一整体。任何物质的客观实体即是原材料,物质做功的本领则是能量,而物质(包括由物质生产所产生的精神)的存在方式和运动 What is characteristic? “Modern Chinese Dictionary” is interpreted as: “the nature of a person or something unique.” In other words, the news characteristic is the characteristic of news. What is the nature of news? For a long time, theorists have different opinions on this issue and it is difficult to reach a consensus. The reason, I am afraid, and research methods are not unrelated. This article attempts to use systematic scientific methods to examine the unique characteristics of news. A systematic science holds that any specific thing in the objective world is the unity of materials, energy and information. The objective entity of any material is the raw material, the material ability to work is energy, and the existence of material (including the spirit of material production) and movement