On November 2nd, the remains of former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang were cremated in Beijing, with flags at half-mast in Tiananmen Square. Li Keqiang suffered a sudden heart attack in Shanghai on October 26th and passed away early on the 27th.
I haven’t watched TV for a long time, and I haven’t read newspapers for an even longer time.
But today, I specifically paid attention to the People’s Daily to further understand it.
Once, China had “two newspapers and one magazine”, with the two newspapers being the People’s Daily and the Liberation Army Daily, and the one magazine being Red Flag.
Now, China has three major official media outlets: People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and China Media Group.
These three, as the three highest-level news organizations in our country, are industry benchmarks in their respective fields, and their influence is top-notch.
They are all at the ministerial level, but the People’s Daily has always been ranked first, because our country is led by the Party, and the People’s Daily has the important positioning of “the organ newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, responsible for grasping public opinion guidance and publicizing major decisions and deployments of the Central Committee”, which determines that the People’s Daily belongs to and is directly managed by the Central Committee, representing the voice of the Central Committee—it is the mouthpiece of the Party. Xinhua News Agency and China Media Group are institutions directly under the State Council.
As China’s largest newspaper, the People’s Daily was once rated by UNESCO as one of the ten most authoritative and influential newspapers in the world.
In the latest ranking of the world’s top ten newspapers in 2023, the People’s Daily even reached 4th place.
It can be said that this newspaper, the People’s Daily, may not be read by all 1.4 billion Chinese people today, but everyone has certainly heard its name.
Regarding the importance of the People’s Daily, we have a familiar impression, that is, we often hear about its “headline news”, such as when a major domestic news hotspot occurs, the country holds an important meeting, or a state leader’s state affairs activities… etc., the People’s Daily will report it with a headline, so that readers can see it at the first time, and it also shows respect for the news and the maintenance of authority.
So, today, November 2, 2023, on this day that is both ordinary and extraordinary, both common and uncommon, what is the headline content in the People’s Daily, which positions itself as “news with quality”?
Searching the internet, this is the headline content of the People’s Daily today:
Those that can be on the headline of the People’s Daily are undoubtedly the most important news that can be made public in the recent period. But there are also many important news, so what is the format or rule of the news sorting of this headline?
The so-called headline of a newspaper refers to the position immediately below the newspaper’s masthead on the first page, that is, the position below the masthead in the upper left corner of the first page. Sometimes some major news has a banner headline, which is of course also a headline.
In layman’s terms, the headline of a newspaper refers to the news article placed in the most prominent position on the left side (or the middle of the front page) of the first page of the newspaper. It is usually the most important and eye-catching content in the news, placed in the most prominent position, and processed with various editing techniques. Such news is usually considered the most important news, so it is placed in the headline position to attract readers’ attention and improve readership.
According to this rule, the sorting of the headline of the People’s Daily today is as follows.
To sort it out, there are mainly six aspects of content on the front page, but the headline content is: Fujian comprehensively improves the modernization level of the industrial system.
Fujian, as a province, the following 5 items are all at the national level.
In the eyes of us ordinary people, it is said that no matter how important the news of a province is, it is certainly not as important as the news at the national level.
Now, the People’s Daily, on this day of November 2, 2023, arranged this news about Fujian in the headline position on the front page, where does its importance or gold content lie? Perhaps the People’s Daily has its own considerations.
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