媒体的社会责任理论,最早来自美国。以美国芝加哥大学校长哈钦斯为首的新闻自由委员会1947年发布的《一个自由而负责的新闻界》,被称为社会责任论的纲领,重点强调大众传播的公共性,要求媒体从事高品位的传播和传播的专业品格。自由与负责的统一,是该理论的核心观 The media’s social responsibility theory, the earliest from the United States. The Free Press Commission, headed by Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, called “a free and responsible press” in 1947 and called it a program of social responsibility theory. The emphasis was placed on the publicity of mass media, which required the media to engage in high-quality Dissemination and dissemination of professional character. The unification of freedom and responsibility is the core concept of this theory