After the global financial crisis in 2008, the Chinese government introduced a four-trillion government investment program, followed by a loose credit policy Policy. According to some media reports and academic articles, the government investment program, which had a crowding-out effect for the private enterprises, benefited the large state-owned enterprises, especially the central enterprises. This phenomenon is called "the state advances, the private recedes" by the media. In a lot of industries, such as coal, steel, real estate, the phenomenon existed, and once exposed by the media, it was widely concerned. On the other hand, there are many scholars, government officials denied such phenomenon. In March 2011, Wen Jiabao explicitly pointed out that there is no "the state advances, the private recedes". What we want to discuss is how the media report this phenomenon in the face of such controversial topics and what is the frame of their reports.Through the way of content analysis, this paper analysed four financial newspapers'analysis report frame of "the state advances, the private recedes". The four medias are "People's Daily", "the economic reference quote ", "China securities journal" and "the 21st century business".Because of different media properties, focus of attention, journalists preferences, the audience orientation, and target markets, different medias had different report frame of "the state advances, the private recedes". |