民国时期，上海帮会势力的恶性膨胀和升腾成为报人生存与发展无法回避的一种社会环境。因新闻竞争的需要和社会压力的胁迫，以及帮会势力的威逼利诱，致使报人结帮入会成为一种普遍现象。而上海帮会作为近代中国社会新陈代谢畸变的产物，有着与生俱来的反动性和破坏性。因此，当帮会势力染指新闻界后，诱逼报人腐败堕落，侵蚀报馆组织管理，操控报刊新闻言论，对中国新闻事业的发展产生严重的消极影响。

Shanghai journalists had to face the social environment that gang group power was expanding in the Republic of China. It was the common phenomenon that journalists joined the gang groups due to news competition and social pressure. However, Shanghai gang groups had the characteristics of reaction and destruction as the result of semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. The gang group power brought the negative influence on the China journalism career,because the press management and news discourse were controlled by them and journalists became corrupted and degenerated.