"people's Daily" Minority News Coverage

The paper combs through and looks back to the news reports of Chinese ethnic groups by People's Daily in the past six decades and conducts relevant data analysis.With the help of these data,the paper summarizes the features of these news reports as follows:overdue preference of topics,the demonstration of age spirit,gracious news style, the variety of news form,the renowned channel to promote cultural exchange and so on.The third and the fourth parts of the paper focus on the text analysis and data collection of the news reports appearing in the special column named "the Ethnic Family" of People's Daily and the serial news reports concerning the celebrations of the anniversaries of the autonomous regions respectively.Finally,the paper comes to a detailed conclusion regarding the problems in the development of the news reports of the ethnic groups by People's Daily:1.a comparatively small number of news reports,2.a wide range of news reports but not a balanced coverage,3.the lack of in-depth reports.At the end of the paper,aiming to address the problems,the paper gives a picture of the trend of the development of the news reports about the ethnic groups for the main-stream media in China:firs?? cultivate and raise the awareness concerning the ethnic groups;second,to achieve a balance coverage; third,carry out the role of"three closes" in reporting on the ethic groups; forth,increase the in-depth reports...