President Ho Chi Minh was a national liberation hero, an outstanding cultural figure and a great revolutionary journalist. He laid the foundation for the birth of Vietnam's revolutionary press with the publication of Thanh Nien newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association on June 21, 1925 - a milestone in the opening of Vietnam's revolutionary press.
Not only founding and leading many newspapers, Nguyen Ai Quoc - Ho Chi Minh also had a "special fate" with journalism. He directly wrote many articles with strong fighting spirit; trained, taught, guided, and oriented journalists and cared about the development of Vietnam's revolutionary journalism.
Regardless of his position, President Ho Chi Minh always clearly and consistently affirmed the viewpoint: The press must first serve the revolution and the people. This is not only a professional viewpoint, but also a guiding ideology for the entire Vietnamese revolutionary press. It is a press that is not far from reality, not neutral, not standing outside the class struggle and the ideal of national liberation. The press must be a sharp weapon on the ideological and cultural front, the voice of the Party, the State and the working people.
The book “The press must first serve the revolution and the people” selects 40 typical works of President Ho Chi Minh, including articles, speeches, letters, telegrams, and appeals sent to readers, journalists, and domestic and international press agencies, which are his important instructions for journalism and journalists, written from 1922 to 1962. This is a work of profound theoretical and practical value, contributing to affirming his consistent thoughts on the role, responsibility, and ethics of the Vietnamese revolutionary press.
In the book, there are brief but profound instructions, simple but imbued with the spirit of service, style and art of journalism. He requires journalists before writing an article, to be able to answer three questions: Who are you writing for? What is the purpose of writing? How to write in a way that is easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to follow.
He criticized formalistic, dogmatic, and stereotyped journalism, and at the same time required journalists to practice writing in a concise, specific, focused, and in-depth style, closely linked to real life. He especially valued the ethics of journalists, requiring them to have revolutionary qualities, be close to the masses, live honestly, modestly, and be responsible for every word they wrote.
The book is not only a research document on Ho Chi Minh's ideology and journalism style, but also a guideline for journalists in the current period. No matter how the press changes its form, genre, or means, the core values of the press remain unchanged: The press serves the Party, serves the people, for the ideal of national independence and socialism.
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