Disaster Coverage Of Media Freedom And Responsibility

Disaster has made a huge impact to society and people’s lives,because of its sudden and enormous destructive.Timely and accurate reports on the disaster not only can reduce people’s fears, but also contribute to the disaster relief activities, as well as post-disaster reconstruction.However, the sensitivity of the disaster news makes the government has to consider the the consequences of disaster information to the community and itself, which also prompted the Government to make all kinds of restrictions on news coverage of disasters.This makes the media not only reporting the facts of the disaster to bear the responsibility, but not touch the minefield,at any time the media will be in a dilemma.In the disaster news reporting.how much freedom the media enjoys and how much responsibility they should bear.But in the field of disaster reporting of contemporary China’s coverage,freedom of the press is still has some policy restrictions.Then in the limited space should media bear the responsibility or not and how to bear.Can this accountability bring the field of disaster reporting further open and by what means to bring this open.These all become the questions of the medias.July 23,2011,Train D301 and D3115 train rear-end accident occurred.The accident gave people a lot of warning at this time of constant speeding of the train.It also epitomized the characteristics of the new era’s disaster reports for medias.Especially the involvement of new media for the accident has made a different significance.This article will select two central media ——"China Youth Daily" and "People’s Daily" as example to demonstrate the relationship between media freedom and responsibility in disaster news reports, what freedom the medias enjoy in disaster news reports, what responsibility should they assume simultaneously and how to balance these two aspect by Layout settings, reported that angle, the reported content and interactive and new media comparison of the layout settings, report angles, the report content and interactive with the new media.In the face of some sensitive topics, can medias change from passive to active and resolve the dilemma clever.