Media Power And Political Power Structure Changes

Anti-corruption in contemporary china is not only the requiring of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to maintain the political validity, but also the need of Chinese society to protect the public interest. There are such new kinds of reporting as "the reporting for encouraging incorruptible","the reporting for anti-corruption" as the CCP 's warning education and "the reporting for anti-corruption" as the self-conscious supervision by mass media during the practical period of mass media to serving the anti-corruption campaign. The main propagandizing pattern used by the CCP to booming anti-corruption have been shaped by "the reporting for encouraging incorruptible" and "the reporting for anti-corruption" as the CCP 's warning education. However, "the reporting for anti-corruption" as the self-conscious supervision by mass media conducted on the mass media's own initiative to reporting corruption and put forward the punishing corruption by the CCP The thesis provides the original describing about the formation and the progress of the three new kinds of reporting.The thesis also provides the analysis about the changing of the structural relationship between the media power and the political power using the theory of civil society. The author concludes that the mass media have got the new function of "supervision by public opinion" and have found the new area of practice to breakthrough the single function of "mouthpiece of the party" and changing the subordinate structural relationship between media power and the political power during the process of political campaign to anti-corruption in contemporary china. From the 1990s, the structural relationship between the media power and the political power has changing complicatedly as time goes on.