邓小平同志南巡谈话和江泽民同志在中央党校的讲话,号召全党和全国人民,进一步解放思想,勇于创新,在建设有中国特色的社会主义伟大事业中,步子更快一点,效果更大更好一些。从某种意义说,新闻工作者更要解放思想,因为我们担负着报道、宣扬人民群众解放思想、大步前进的事绩和成就的任务。半个世纪以来,我们经历三次思想解放运动。第一次,1942年延安和各抗日根据地整风,反对“左”的教条主义,提倡理论与实践统一,引来抗日战争和解放战争的彻底胜利。第二次,1978年的党 Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour talk and Comrade Jiang Zemin’s speech at the Central Party School called for all the party and the people throughout the country to further emancipate their minds and make innovations. In building the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the pace will be faster, more effective and better some. In a sense, journalists need to emancipate their minds even more because we shoulder the responsibility of reporting on and proclaiming the masses’ task of emancipating their minds, striding forward and achieving great accomplishments. For half a century, we have experienced three movements of ideological liberation. For the first time, in 1942, Yan’an and all the anti-Japanese bases rectified the wind and opposed the “Leftist” dogmatism and advocated the unification of theory and practice and drew the complete victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War. Second, the party of 1978