18 years ago, a SARS virus swept in, like the new crown virus outbreak in 2020, which made everyone panic.
In the self-endangerment of everyone, the first to take the initiative to participate in the frontline of the fight against the virus is not only medical staff, but also a female journalist.
She has just moved from the host world, and before that, she was Bai Yansong's partner, and Bai Yansong thought that "will be one of the best hosts in China." ”
She later became famous in the SARS War and committed herself to becoming a "journalist in pursuit of the truth".
She did indeed "give the nameless a name, and let the silent mouth have a voice." "I became one of the most trusted journalists in the public at that time."
Later, she went to the United States to give birth to a daughter, and because of "Under the Dome" and the interview with Academician Ding Zhongli, she fell from the altar of the goddess of the Chinese state and disappeared from the public eye, and it has been 6 years.
She is Chai Jing, the girl who dares to take the lead and interview SARS patients.
April 2003 was originally a good season for April days on earth, with warblers flying in the grass and children playing, but the bustle of the past was replaced by panic and fear.
Because the guy called "atypical pneumonia" is like a mysterious demon beast, enveloping the earth and devouring life.
The most people hear in the media is to make everyone not panic.
It has been a few months since the "demon beast" appeared, but no one has figured out its true face, but it has constantly heard the death rate of high infection rates, and there is no way to fight back against it.
Ban Lan Root was hard to find, and it was not yet known when it would be able to repel it.
The eldest sister who sold pancakes downstairs asked Chai Jing: "Don't you work in the TV station, what is going on here?" ”
As a journalist with a keen intuition, Chai Jing could only be dumbfounded at the time.
However, her newly arrived "News Investigation" is holding a meeting on SARS.
This is a CCTV program with the purpose of "exploring the truth".
Chai Jing did not hesitate to introduce herself, and as a reporter on camera, she rushed to the hospital to explore the true face of the "demon beast".
Because the camera and the recording stick could not be completely disinfected, Chai Jing had to pin a microphone in his clothes, and a person followed the epidemiological observer into the dangerous zone.
Someone from the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention asked her, "Does it make sense?" ”
She didn't answer, she just didn't want to, and when others asked her again, "What the hell is going on?"
However, in the hospital, when she saw the dying state of the infected person, Chai Jing thought about running away, but that empty despair grabbed her heart.
Since then, as the first reporter to report on SARS at "zero distance", she will always be present at the SCENE OF SARS where the ambulance roars.
The camera shakes from time to time, but the thin woman in the white protective suit, holding the hand of the microphone, is always firm.
She was in the hospital, in the ambulance, and even in the home of SARS patients, again and again, and SARS patients, face-to-face interviews, tearing apart the mystery and horror of "SARS" to the public.
In the thrill of dealing with death, she remembered her parents, and in the face of the fear of her relatives, she tranced: "Shouldn't I go to the ward?" ”
My sister always understood her and said, "You can choose not to be a journalist, but when you become a journalist, you don't have the right to choose not to go." ”
After the end of SARS, the name of "Chai Jing" became a household name.
Adhering to the principle of "seeking the truth", she strives to become a journalist who "pursues the truth".
From the Liyang domestic violence incident to the Wenchuan earthquake, from factory pollution to the South China Tiger incident, from the Yaojiaxin case to the mining accident site, Chai Jing faced every party involved and pulled the truth behind the news into the sun.
Whether it is "Oriental Time and Space", "News 24 Hours" or "Face to Face" and other CCTV columns, she is either sharp or gentle, so that the official people sweat to cope, so that the lonely people are willing to talk about themselves.
Later, Zhou Xingchi's sentence "Thank you" in the interview program made Chai Jing's reputation as a "goddess of public knowledge" recognized by the whole network.
Immediately after, the blue-covered book, "Seeing", swept through bookstores in 2013 with a thunderous momentum, and in a short period of time, the sales exceeded 1 million copies, which was one of the best-selling books in the country at that time.
Chai Jing on the cover, with her trademark short hair, sat among the people, smiling and staring at the children in front of her.
This year, her career and fame have reached a new peak.
When a person's light is too bright and has enough influence on society, her words and deeds will always be infinitely magnified and over-interpreted.
At that time, the avid readers of "Seeing" did not expect that they would hold the "goddess of public knowledge" on the altar, and later they were pushed down mercilessly.
After the hit "See", the news came out that Chai Jing left CCTV.
She married the photographer Zhao Jia, and gradually faded out of the screen in the lament of the crowd.
At the end of 2013, the news came that she was going to the United States to give birth.
At this time, netizens began to sit still, and the national reporters and hosts who had been trusted by countless people actually became a member of the army of "going to the United States to give birth" and let their children become American citizens?!
Chai Jing faced doubts, but chose silence.
It wasn't until 2015 that she returned with a million-dollar, self-funded documentary, Under the Dome.
She bluntly said on social platforms that shooting this film is her "personal grudge" with smog.
Because her child, before she was born, had a tumor because of environmental pollution.
This is also the reason why she chose to let her child be born in the United States.
It is precisely because of this that she has given her entire wealth, spent more than a year, collected all kinds of information, traveled to many countries, and just wanted to find the root cause of smog.
She spent 103 minutes showing her full feelings and harvests of smog.
At that time, smog had become a hot spot in society.
As soon as "Under the Dome" was broadcast, it quickly attracted the attention of the whole people and produced a great response.
Just when people's fanaticism for Chai Jing was about to be set off again, The famous "anti-counterfeiting guard" Fang Arkzi at that time published "The Fog of Counterfeiting under Chai Jing's "Under the Dome", which made the wind of public opinion turn around instantaneously.
"Under the Dome" data exaggeration, even in the name of environmental protection, the sword refers to state-owned industries, alluding to the environmental protection concept of European and American countries, who is Chai Jing speaking for?!
So 6 days later, "Under the Dome" was quickly and completely removed.
No one paid attention to Chai Jing's "personal grudge" anymore, and the clamor for "treason and glory" crusade, which converged into a carnival of "chopping wood" for the whole people.
Netizens always like to say that the Internet has a memory.
In the events recorded by the Internet for Chai Jing, a piece of ironclad evidence was turned out to prove that she was "yellow-skinned and white-hearted".
In 2009, in the "Face to Face" program, Chai Jing interviewed Academician Ding Zhongli and discussed whether the international energy conservation and emission reduction schemes were fair.
At that time, the Copenhagen climate summit had just ended, and Ding Zhongli used fierce words to refute the "IPCC program" recognized by international mainstream science.
From the perspective of ordinary people, Chai Jing asked academicians about "academician Ding Zhongli's views", "basis for refutation", "whether it is related to national politics", and "the nature of international CO2 emission reduction programs".
Originally, after watching the interview, people would have a better understanding of international environmental protection issues under the discussion of the two people.
However, after a few years, under the collapse of Chai Jing's reputation, the old video that was turned over has another interpretation.
The Q&A discussion between the two people is believed to be that Chai Jing does not know how to pretend to understand and attacks Ding Zhongli.
In particular, Ding Zhongli's casual remark that "Chinese is not a person" was taken out of context, believing that Ding Zhongli angrily asked Chai Jing.
How many of those keyboard warriors who clamored for patriotism and started the internet with great fanfare watched the full interview video?
Otherwise, how can we ignore what is said in the program: "Sufficient discussion can make different views appear, and only then can all parties play in the interests of all parties." And such a game, confrontation, collision, presentation, it is possible to get as close to the consensus as possible, the truth comes from this, and fairness also comes from here. ”
After 2015, Chai Jing completely disappeared from the public eye with a series of disturbing controversies.
Whether it was the name of the "Goddess of Public Knowledge" or the insult of "treason and glory" later, Chai Jing always chose to be silent.
She will always remember that when she first arrived at CCTV, her mentor said: "Keeping the brain like jade, only asking about cultivation, not about the harvest." ”
Nowadays, people rarely mention the girl who risked death to rush to the front line of SARS;
Few people remember the reporter who crouched down and silently wiped away tears for the interviewee;
The figure that appeared in the living room of domestic violence, at the mouth of the mine accident, in the ruins of the Wenchuan earthquake, and next to the excavator for land acquisition and demolition, is getting farther and farther away in the gears of the times.
There is a saying in "Seeing": "Don't find what you want in life, feel what is happening in life." ”
Today, Chai Jing is still living her life silently.
She has never changed, but this impetuous and drifting era has been changing.
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【Text| Purple Dust Quiet Snow】
Edit | Daniel Lee ]
【Typography | Drizzle】
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