Comparison Of Expression Methods Between Sino-American Newspaper Commentaries

The news commentary expression method refers to the method that the author takesby using certain materials and forms, to express opinions and comments about certainnews, including principles and skills obeyed in the works; it displays the author’s spiritualpersonality and thinking habits, reflecting certain ideologies.This paper selects news commentary works which had been awarded in China NewsPrize and Pulitzer Prize during2008to2011as its basic materials for analysis. Throughreading and comparison, discuss the hidden expression principles, and from the angle oftypical differences, summarize several different expression paradigms, namely, viewdemonstration and behavior criticism; concept deduction and specific analysis; grandnarrative and specific narrative; hard grammar and soft grammar. Furthermore, applyingthe cultural studies approach which belongs to Comparative Journalism theory, from thepolitical and cultural perspective, the paper analyses the causes of the differences andemphasizes the influences of the ideologies and cultures.Through comparison and analysis, it demonstrates that there are a lot of advantagesthe Chinese commentary could learn from American news commentary in expressionmethod, for example, the emphasis on the solution and news fact as well as humanconcern, etc. Currently, the Chinese commentary is in its glory, under such goodcircumstance, it should keep up with the times and extend its international perspective,critically absorb cultural achievements of mankind from different countries, differentnationalities, different regions and different eras. To achieve this, the criticism of newscommentary writing must play a part.