From published articles about news tort , participants in news circle pay more attention to supervision and priority of liberty value of news but others to importance of protecting legal rights of citizens and legal person . on the whole , the research in tort act law is in beginning and there are so many problems in the stage of imploration and discussion . therefore , that brings about certain difficulty to authorities so as to use different value standard in different courts , which is disadvantageous to seriousness of law and to active function of news medium just as for question about compensation for spiritual harm 在分析理論界不同觀點和意見分歧的基礎上,闡述了作者自己的觀點,認為新聞侵權民事責任適用過錯責任歸責原則,其構成要件仍符合傳統(tǒng)侵權行為法意義上的四要件說,但在表現(xiàn)形式上有其特殊之處,體現(xiàn)在:第一,行為人通過大眾傳媒實施了有損特定公民和法人人格權的行為;第二,新聞侵權行為造成了一定的損害事實;第三,行為與損害結果之間有因果關系;第四,新聞侵權行為人有過錯。