The press and its mission to protect the Party and the revolutionary cause of the entire people
These days, amid the colorful celebration of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press Day on June 21, society has the opportunity to honor the team of journalists who dare to sacrifice themselves for their cause, ready to be present everywhere, at all times to promptly inform the public about the country's burning issues. For nearly a century accompanying the nation, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has continuously grown, becoming a pioneering force on the ideological and cultural front, a sharp weapon protecting the Party, making great contributions to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.
It is no coincidence that in recent years, many people often jokingly say that June is the month of journalists. Because this month there is an important holiday, reminding the team of journalists about the glorious history ofVietnamese Revolutionary Journalismfounded and trained by President Ho Chi Minh.
With the launch of the first issue of Thanh Nien newspaper on June 21, 1925, leader Nguyen Ai Quoc laid the first brick to build the foundation for the formation and development of Vietnam's revolutionary press - a press with the noble mission of accompanying the cause of national liberation led by the Communist Party.
After decades of resistance against colonialism and imperialism, the Vietnamese press has recognized and honored many examples of journalists who both wrote and fought, regardless of hardship and sacrifice, dedicating their whole lives to the revolution.
In peacetime, embarking on the task of building and developing the country, the press continues to be a bridge to bring the Party's guidelines and the State's legal policies to the people, promoting patriotic emulation movements, and motivating all classes of people to overcome difficulties and challenges, especially in the period of innovation and international integration.
With the functions of discovery, information, supervision, and criticism, our country's press is a forum for people to promote their right to mastery, contribute their minds and efforts to the country; is a vanguard force on the front line of the fight against corruption, waste, and negativity, and strengthens people's trust in the Party, the State, and the regime.
In particular, since the 13th National Party Congress, the press has played an increasingly important role in the fight against the erroneous and reactionary views of hostile forces and in protecting the Party's ideological foundation.
Not only the central press agencies but also most Party newspapers and local radio and television stations have a column called "Protect the Party's ideological foundation", attracting the enthusiastic and responsible participation of a large number of journalists, researchers, and social activists with many outstanding journalistic works that have a wide influence, becoming a "sharp theoretical weapon" to prevent and repel ideological, political, moral, and lifestyle degradation, manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation". At the same time, multiplying examples of good people and good deeds with the spirit of "using beauty to eliminate ugliness", "using construction to fight degradation"...
The press has truly become an active force in the struggle to build our Party increasingly clean and strong. As President Ho Chi Minh - a great journalist of the revolutionary press once said: "Press cadres are also revolutionary soldiers. Pens and paper are their sharp weapons."
Nowadays, information technology is developing strongly, digital transformation is becoming a matter of survival for press and media agencies and also for each journalist, to serve the public's information needs best and fastest, in line with the general development trend of the times, while improving qualifications and professionalism as well as helping the team of journalists maintain themselves.
The 13th National Congress of the Party continued to emphasize that one of the important tasks of the press is to build and develop a professional, humane and modern press and media. In which, humanity, accuracy and objectivity are the core values and the reason for the existence of the press. Humanity is to have the strength to protect and promote the good values of society.
It is reasonable to say that journalists are the happiest people because they have the opportunity to have the most dialogue with the public on issues that concern public opinion... To do that, each journalist must always strive, study, equip himself with a rich amount of knowledge, train his courage and intelligence, truly focus on "forging the pen, practicing the profession" with the mindset of "sharp pen, pure heart, bright mind", "supporting the righteous, warding off evil",relentless fightwith distorted and incorrect arguments, fulfilling the social responsibility and professional ethics of a true writer./.
