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Analysis Of The News Reports In Aviation Safety

Posted on:2010-08-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J W WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2178360272995002Subject:Journalism
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With the rapid development of civil aviation industry, aircraft is becoming closer and closer to our daily life. More and more people are now choosing planes as their first choice for travel. As current or potential passengers, the public pay great attention on aviation safety. As a result, the aviation safely reports have become one of the most popular kinds of news reports. Then currently, how does the media presents the aviation safety condition to the public and what is the true situation?The author first groups the reports into 'good', 'bad' and 'neutral' information, then makes comparison in quantity, lay-out and length and using analytical methods to summarize the current condition of aviation safety. Subsequently, the author focus mainly on major and important reports to analyze and discuss the elements that are considered as key journalism factors in aviation report. Through framework analysis methodology, how important points are highlighted by journalist is examined in title, source and expression. In the end, from the journalism aspect and relate the relationship among aviation safety events, airline companies and the news report producer, how to build the frame of aviation safety news, how to present the true condition to the society are analyzed and discussed.The analysis found although Local Item is an important element to decide whether the aviation events could be reported as important news, there is seldom news reports about local aviation-information. The author felt the producing process of news reports and the relationship among journalists, news paper agency and the airline companies are the key reasons.
Keywords/Search Tags:aviation, safety, reports, media present
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