In recent years, availing of the achievements of the renewal process, our mass media has developed quickly in terms of quantity and forms (written newspapers, radio, television and electronic newspapers). The contingent of correspondents and editors, material basis and financial capacity have also significantly developed. However, the operation of our mass media has still inherited weaknesses and incurred mistakes which are slowly being addressed. Some press agencies have showed their negligence of the political and ideological functions of the revolutionary mass media, and/or diverged from the mandate and objectives,  by being influenced by the commercialization of the operation and mediocre taste. These agencies paid little attention to the discovery and encouragement of exemplary persons and actions, and new factors in the cause of renovation, national construction and defense. The impact of these weaknesses and mistakes is serious and harmful to the national economic interests and the State’s direction and management. They are also causing the erosion of people’s confidence in the renewal process. The hostile forces take advantage of these weaknesses and mistakes to blacken and criticize our Party and regime which in turn distorts our country’s image in the eyes of international friends.