Study On The Eye Of Typhoon In Chinese Calamity Report

There is an inherent feature of news in calamities. Exact reports on calamities play an important role in salvation, resistance, conquering panic and impelling investigation into calamities. Reports itself will bring positive effect on constructing democracy and setting up upstanding image of China. There has been an obvious outbreak in the amount of calamity report and making it in public. Meanwhile, the principal points of news outstand greatly. However, an obstacle to progress still exists. That is to say, when a calamity happen, the local government suppress the truth in public or stealthily for some reason, they either play down its truth or do some subreption in order to make common people in dark, which will result in rumor and scandal being spread about. I call this"the eye of typhoon"on calamity report.Based on a general survey throughout its history and actuality of calamity report, this paper lucubrates on concept variety and phenomena of calamity report in China, especially make a concrete analysis of"the eye of typhoon"on calamity report in order to solve the concrete problems and strengthen the ability to international communication. At the same time, this paper compares and contrasts Chinese report with Western report on calamities to achieve some assumption for optimizing today's calamity reports.Facing the new situation of global information, the government should further update concept, construct and improve the statute of press to strengthen the ability to deal with outbreak calamities, avoid the passive situation. The measures we should take are that the governments allow media to report calamities in public to meet people's right to know, on the other hand, take an active in guiding media. Mass media should use all sorts of experiences for reference and highlight responsibilities, increase report quality, pay attention to humanism and abide by laws and statutes.