Objectivity Principle And Responsibility View Of Suicidal Report

According to the statistics data of WHO in 2002, the death toll in China had stood at 287,000 per year. China has been one of the countries with highest suicide rate, its existing problems on suicide are not allowed to be neglected. In the first 11 months last year in 2010, there were 14 staff attempted to jump from a height in ShenZhen Foxconn Company,3 of them were badly injured and 11 were dead. As a phenomenon that gains high attention of socity, suicide was first applied to the Chinese vision. At the same time, the event also caused a hot discussion in the problem that if the press could report suicide event or not, and how to report.This paper, based on the newspaper's reports practice of "the event of Foxconn jump", described the particularity of Chinese suicide, analyze the present state of suicide reports and the role of media in the event of suicide. Then select five newspaper's reports, applying the theory of media framework as reference background to exhibit the reality of the press in the suicide event. They are Southern Weekly, China Young Daily, Southern Metropolitan Daily, Jing Daily and United Daily. The aim is to explore the equalization point liking to the media's principle of objectivity and responsibility. It has been discovered that the press paid more attention to the event of Foxconn jump than the past suicidal reports. And put them in a serious system, adopted the higher frame such as value and theme framework. Suicide as a Chinese social problem, the press has the freedom to report it, at the same time, it should strengthen the reports'positive effector and weaken the negative effect because of the journalistic professionalism.