Research On Disaster Coverage In Recent 30 Years

Disaster coverage is one of the many news types. In recent years it is interested by many researchers for its unique type and wide-ranging implications. It refers that report the disastrous incident caused by man-made or non-human factors by mass media. These events tend to give society a huge losses on property and personnel, resulting in significant social impact. Disaster news events often have several varieties of news values and high selectivity, therefore, disaster news attracted wide public concern.Since the establishment of P.R.China, the disaster coverage is adopted different forms in different stages. Before reform and opening up, disaster coverage is mainly adopted the form of "gloss", "disaster Heroes", putting the real events under the carpet. From "Daxinganling fire", "1998 flood" to last year's "Wenchuan Earthquake", the news media coverage of these disasters have obvious progress. Every stage of progress is accompanied by corresponding information system innovation, which reflects the progress of the time and the political system. It is useful to explore the mutual influence and restriction for policies of the press reform both at present and in the future.To maintain the healthy development of the disaster report, the most important is following the basic rules of news, upholding leadership by the Communist Party, emancipating the mind continuous and breaking the restricted area in disaster reported. Only in this way can better exert the power of the media and really possess the right to reason by people. In a way, only such news media can win the trust of the people, can better serve the socialist modernization drive.