The Myth Of Metropolitan Daily's Political Behavior

As the important matter in the proceeding of China's democracy, the annual session of china's National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) hereinafter cited as the "two conferences" are two of the most impotant political assemblies of the Communist Party of China. Nominally, the Conferences are routinely held as formal meetings for the ruling Communist regime. Through the two Conferences, the NPC and CPPCC members have participating in and discussing state affairs and democratic supervision. The two Conferences reflect the degree of democray construction and the extent of people's involvement in the political affairs directly. With the characteristics of the mass media, the relationship between mass media and national politics can not avoid from the outset, "politics is the main nerves of communication, while the communication is the controller of politics". Therefore, the news coverage on "two sessions", on the one hand to achieve the public access to information on government decision-making, on the other hand to achieve effective supervision of public power, the two sides work together to map out precisely what China's constitutional process.The realization of political functions of media is based on the modern democracy. Metropolitan daily, as a new force of Chinese press organizations, sprang up in the beginning of 1990's. It filled the market vacancy of quality newspaper which reprensented by the party newspaper, setting off the wave of popularity in the Chinese newspaper market.While, metropolitan daily's political functions and roles not only related to the political environment of China's modernization process, but also with the reality of China's media system reform. The chronic illness caused by serious newspapers, such as party newspapers, the official newspapers which made their stylized reports within the system, provides metropolitan daily a new opportunity to esspress their political behavior. That is to say, it could construct another framework. However, if it inclined to the expression of urbanite consumption of readers'and audience's reading habits, the metropolitan daily's political behavior would be superficial. This is such a dual force that result the myth of metropolitan daily's political behavior.The myth of metropolitan daily's political behavior has brought about concept and content problems. In order to break this myth, the metropolitan daily should not only change it's own role as soon as possible, but also seek the professional method of news reports. In the request of publicus and professionalism, the metropolitan daily should pursue it's advanced way on political behavior.