Media people commit suicide because of depression

Absrtact: Recently, the society has been a number of media people's frequent suicide, the official reason is because of depression, then, the truth behind this?

On May 8, the news that the original editorial board of Shenzhen newspaper group, general manager of the advertising department Zhang JINGWU suicide, shocked the Chinese press again. A lot of media people have been committing suicide recently, and what kind of trend is reflected in this?

On April 28, Song Bin, vice president and editor-in-chief of the Anhui branch of Xinhua News agency, was killed in his office. According to the Xinhua news agency system, Song Bin is hanged and left a suicide note, he is likely to suffer from depression.

On May 4, Xuhang, Vice editor-in-chief of Hangzhou Metropolitan Express, died of suicide. According to the information we have, Xu committed suicide before the work pressure is very large, and suffering from depression, with long-term insomnia. and "City Express," The editor-in-chief of Zhu Jian in the title of "Regret" in the last Sigh, "Tonight, cool cold hard to eliminate, tears difficult to do, we are already depressed patients." Sorry, this is the last word you left for the world. I am sorry. I hope you get this late apology. This sentence, full of pathos and desolation, in the words also said the media people's sadness.

On May 6, Hunan province Xiangxiang radio and television station, deputy Tai-he satellite hanged himself. The scene left two suicide notes and part of the note, Meng mentioned "pain, pain, pain", "diligent, nothing, work pressure is huge ..." The local police initially investigated the cause of death by hanging himself and died.

In such a short period of time, there are so many media people commit suicide, but also depression, pressure, have to let people think deeply. One shark believes that this reflects the new media to replace traditional media under the trend of media people's survival dilemma, which is the main reason for the media people suffer from depression.

One reason is that traditional media, under the impact of new media, the downward trend is unstoppable, which makes the media people's minds but powerless.

The vigorous development of new media is forming the trend of intermediation, which makes the traditional media face the "extinction". Not only are media people committing suicide frequently, but traditional media are also dying. At the end of 2013, Shanghai's "Evening News" announced the New Year's closure, followed by the paper media have "from the palace", "slimming" survival. Even the daily newspaper, the international financial news, announced a revised weekly report.

2014 Paper Media Doom did not end, the publication of the "auction" on December 28, 2004 on April 17 on the front page of the "Huying word", said that by the competent organizers and the press and publishing management agreed, the "auction" from April 25, 2014 onwards Huying.

@ Wang Dong's Weibo is one of the reasons why media people are depressed: "Xu's suicide reveals the cramped of many media operators today." Traditional media downward, increasingly to the rising number of indicators of the worry. At the same time, the rising resources are becoming less and more, the performance of the practitioners is gradually crushed. The trader does not match the contribution, in the face of a failure in the high jump competition, the dedication and want to get the results of the gradual drift away, become the only number and live, how can not depression. ”

The second reason, media people are mostly traditional thinking, in the face of the rise of new media, forced to take up at the same time two completely different burdens, resulting in a surge of pressure, thinking is also in the traditional and internet thinking of the conflict state.

Media people are mostly traditional thinking, and under the impact of the Internet, forced to change, because there are not too many people who understand the media and the Internet, so the existing media most of the time to provoke two burdens. However, the different thinking, but also make them in the division of thinking and internal conflict, the new media must be quick to respond to the characteristics of the rapid and the pressure of their own, overwhelmed.

After the suicide of Xuhang, the deputy editor-in-chief of Hangzhou City Express, Zhu Jian, editor-in-chief of Urban Express, said the work of the two departments was pressed on Xuhang. New media work to the early morning, the newspaper work will be night shift. The leader had asked Xu to do some adjustment, Xu Xing replied: "There is no big problem, they can overcome." But Xu's wife said he had been sleepless all night since January, and that it was useless to eat sleeping pills until now. His stomach was getting more and more severe burning sensation. But he never spoke to anyone at the newspaper. Even when his family came to see the newspaper leader, he resolutely stopped it.

Eat has not eaten half, it is necessary to look at the mobile phone client, under the brush to see if there is any sudden hot spots. In the evening just go to bed not long, was under the telephone of the subordinate woke up, climbed up to command the news report of the accident. There is nothing to check their own media in micro-blog, micro-letter updates, for fear that there will be content error. As traditional media shift to new media, these are "potluck" for many of the media leaders who work on the frontline.

"7*24" is the traditional media in the transformation of the new media to face the changes in the pace of work: from the original monthly, fortnightly, weekly, daily work rhythm, to every one hours, every minute, or even every second change. Exaggerated point that the new media under the All-weather working time requirements, so that the media like the aircraft carrier on the same aircraft, as long as the command, it is necessary to "attack" anytime, no wonder these media people will shout great pressure, will suffer from depression.

The third reason is that the decline of traditional media has made it painful for media people who used to be forced to abandon their posture to intervene in the business.

Media people once had the ideal of journalism, are unwilling to five meters bow. Our media, once mostly content and business separation. However, with the impact of the Internet on the media, traditional media business is deteriorating, once only write good articles of the media people are forced to worry about business and livelihood, need to lay down to serve advertisers, to change their own news ideals, this pain is unbearable to the media.

Chinese intellectuals are more lofty, more face-saving, they firmly believe that their content to be objective, to be responsible for the reader, but when in order to operate had to sacrifice these, had to become the role of customer service, their inner conflict and struggle imaginable. Sometimes people get depressed not only because of physical exertion, this inner torture is even more terrible.

Sincerely wish the media people under the impact of the Internet tide can pass this transition period!