A Comparative Study On The Reports Of The Japanese Earthquake Between China And American Press

The report of the unexpected events is always important and difficult in the field of news reporting, and also a hard test to the overall quality of the press workers. How to write an excellent report becomes even more important especially in the era that disasters happened frequently.This paper is a research in the domain of comparative journalism, and it makes a comparison between the People’s Daily and the New York Times on the report of the unexpected events by taking the Japanese earthquake as an example for analyzing and comparing the mainstream media of china and the West.The analysis can be divided into three parts:(1) the analysis and comparison on the news business to know what’re the differences between the two sides and what wroth to learn.(2)The analysis and comparison on both sides’ Reports on the disaster will show the differences between their news value orientation and news organizations,Based on frame theory.(3) The analysis and comparison on the country’s image building will show the differences between their news idea and expression.This article adopted a variety of research methods to sort out and analyze all the textual materialsiget.The aim of the analysis and comparison is not to chose which one is better but to find a common methodology which apply to both. The writer try to get off the lopsided and emotional opinions caused by the ideological differences so as not to reach the simplistic and superficial conclusion.