以正面报道为主，是社会主义新闻事业的一项基本方针，符合当前党的基本路线和广大人民群众的利益。认真积极地开展批评性报道，实现有效的舆论监督，同坚持正面报道为主是一致的，不可分割的①。首先，社会生活的现实矛盾始终存在，一定时代总有先进与落后、积极与消极的方面 It is a basic principle of socialist journalism that reports mainly on the front and is in line with the current party’s basic line and the interests of the broad masses of the people. Serious and active conduct of critical reports and effective supervision of public opinion are consistent and indivisible with the insistence on positive reports. First of all, the actual contradictions in social life always exist. In a certain era, there are always advanced and backward, positive and negative aspects