Disaster News Coverage In China And Countermeasures

Looking from the rule of news value, there's extremely high value in disaster events. Audiences always focus the attention on disaster events, especially the people who has direct or indirect relationship with such events. Looking from the demand of media competition, disaster news is a effective way that can raise the journalists' reporting level and help to obtain a well media prestige.There are many disaster reports and such news has been related with all kinds of fields, such as report of disaster scene, rescue work and damage situation, report of disaster reason, report of public opinion and social appraisal, report of government department's solution to the events, report of the influence of the disaster events and so on. That is to say, we have reported disaster events from all kinds of angles.Catastrophic events' attention and shocking is very high, in the time of media logic, news doesn't reflect true, but limits true. In the guide of some framework, journalists choice and organize clips deliberately or inadvertently, arraying a consistency of news report. Media's reports shape people's cognizance of news events in a large extent, particularly in the disaster's sensitive stage. Disaster news is an important part of news transmission. The transmission is like a double-edged sword, containing positive and negative function. The successful disaster news could stable community and people's sentiments. Some negative problems in disaster news can increase the spread of disaster; expand the impact of disaster, and extent the space and time of disaster negative role, which lead the adverse impact to the state, community and people.