Uncle Ho's valuable instructions to the press

The book "The press must first serve the revolution and serve the people".

President Ho Chi Minh was the one who 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.

He always clearly and consistently affirmed the viewpoint: The press must first serve the revolution and serve the people. This is not only a professional viewpoint, but also a guiding ideology for the entire Vietnamese revolutionary press.

The book “Journalism must first serve the revolution and serve 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. These are his important instructions for journalism and journalists, written from 1922 to 1962.

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.

According to qdnd.vn

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