Legal analysis: Food safety is a hot spot of social concern. As an important leader, disseminator and promoter of public opinion, news media has become an important force in social governance of food safety. Public welfare propaganda and public opinion supervision on food safety are two important social responsibilities that news media should bear in food safety. First, public welfare propaganda. Television, radio, newspapers, internet and other news media have a wide audience, spread quickly, have a large amount of information and have a far-reaching social impact, and are an important force to carry out public welfare propaganda on food safety. News media should give full play to their own advantages, and carry out public welfare publicity of food safety laws and regulations, food safety standards and knowledge by opening food safety knowledge columns, making food safety propaganda films and public service advertisements, and inviting experts to open food safety publicity lectures. It should be pointed out that "public welfare publicity" is publicity aimed at public welfare and cannot be charged any fees. The second is public opinion supervision. News media is an important force in social supervision of food safety. The news media should be brave enough to expose and expose food safety violations and ensure the public's right to know and supervise. In recent years, many food safety incidents were first exposed by the news media and quickly attracted the attention of the regulatory authorities, such as the problem milk powder incident in 2008 and the Fuxi incident in 20 14. It can be said that the news media has played an irreplaceable role in exposing food safety incidents and is an important force in social supervision of food safety. It should be pointed out that the news media should be true and fair in reporting food safety incidents, and they should not fabricate or spread false information, nor should they deliberately speculate and create troubles with partiality. This is the social responsibility that the media should fulfill. The Food Safety Law clearly stipulates the corresponding legal responsibilities for news media to fabricate and disseminate false food safety information. In addition to the authenticity and impartiality of the news media's publicity and reporting on food safety, other subjects, such as consumer organizations, individual citizens, enterprises, etc. Anyone who fabricates or disseminates false food safety information in food safety publicity reports shall also bear legal responsibility according to law.
Legal basis: Article 10 of the Food Safety Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
People's governments at all levels should strengthen food safety publicity and education, popularize food safety knowledge, encourage social organizations, grassroots mass autonomous organizations and food producers and operators to popularize food safety laws and regulations, food safety standards and knowledge, advocate healthy eating styles, and enhance consumers' food safety awareness and self-protection ability.
News media should publicize food safety laws and regulations, food safety standards and knowledge for public welfare, and supervise food safety violations by public opinion. The publicity and reporting of food safety should be true and fair.