| The subject of mining disasters constitutes an essential content in news and media reporting. It has recently become a social crisis incident of the modern society in China. The reporting of mining disasters has not only reflected the prospects of a modern social democracy and cuture transition. It is also important to point that the function role of news media has become gradually imoproved. This paper examines overall concept of mining disasters in media reporting and close reading by analyzing the relevent theories in journalism studies, mass media, cultural studies, framework and discourse research based on previous research results. This paper is concerned with a shift of social power and culture change in China from the perspective of histry. In 1980s, the media coverage of this event was rather sparse. However, as media's function of supervision by public opinion in mining incidents reporting was emphasized, the news about mining incidents was taken seriously in 1990s. In the year of 2000, changes of concepts in mining incidents reporting, including effect of time for news, various information in content and massive nature of the information released, revealed a humanitarian concern on important event matter.This paper examines political discourse, framework theory, humanities discourses and media ethics interact in mining incidents reporting on a theoretical foundation of framework, discourse and rhetoric research. Furthermore, it carries out research into a variety of strategic issues on how to make balance between propaganda and news reporting. It also focus on various aspects in the rescue work during accients to make rational consideration about the cause of mining disasters in China. |
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