美国《纽约太阳报》19世纪70年代的编辑主任约翰·博加特把新闻解释为“狗咬人不是新闻,人咬狗才是新闻”。这种说法被西方资产阶级报人作为选择新闻的标准一直延续至今。人们都知道,狗具有狂吠、咬人的天性。当人们一听到狗叫或者一看到狗咬人的事,大都认为这是正常的现象,不值得大惊小怪。但人是有别于“狗”的,如果“人”真的会咬“狗”,那就令人瞠目结舌了。这种“狗咬人……人咬狗”理论,核心问题就是“奇”,一言以蔽之:“奇”就是新闻。“凡是能让女人喊一声‘啊呀,我的天 John Bogart, the editorial director of the New York Sun newspaper in the 1870s, interpreted the news as “dog bites are not news, people bite dogs are news.” This statement has been adopted by the Western bourgeois press as the standard of choice for the news so far. People know that dogs have barking and biting nature. When people hear a dog or a dog saw the bite, most think it is normal phenomenon, not worth the fuss. But people are different from “dog”, if “people” really bite “dog”, it is staggering. This “dog bites ... people bite dog” theory, the core issue is “odd” in the final analysis: “odd” is the news. "Any woman who can make a cry, ah, my God