The Comparation Between China And West On Reporting Disaster News

There have been disasters since there have been human beings. Under the circumstances of economic globalization, disasters have wider and even more impact on human lives. It is our earnest need for survival to highly concern with both disaster and information about disasters. China is the earliest country making reports on disasters. But after a long period of development, western media have become much more practically and theoretically mature on reporting disastrous incident.This paper, from different understandings on disastrous reports, is going to seek for different cultural, political, historic, economic, traditional and psychological factors hidden behind Chinese and Western journal conception, so as to provide a rational explanation for their respective manifestation.By recalling the course of different reporting on disastrous incident this paper tries to compare and analyze the similarities and differences, advantages and disadvantages developing tendency as well in Chinese and Western news value, timing, keynote perspective and impact. A conclusion is drawn that our country's disastrous incident reporting seems to be going into market, learning western media's advanced experience and trying to merge with western reporting style, but actually they have essential difference. Our country's disastrous reporting, derived from oriental culture, is a reflection of our own present developing situation.This text to compare with system, studied the different characteristics of medium western disaster affairs report way more and thoroughly, put forward media and its employee a problem at the role fixed position within the disaster affairs report way, and know an Internet network a prominent function and the influence in the contemporary disaster affairs the dissemination.