On The Role Of The Media In Public Decision-making

In march2011,in order to construct metro line3. More than2000phoenix trees will have to be removed to give way for the metro. Branches of the phoenix trees along the two sides of Taiping north road are chopped. Local newspaper<yangzi daily> and other media take up to make reports about the event, immediately, the life and death of phoenix trees become the focus of all the citizens in NanJing. Over the month that followed, the citizens take some action to save phoenix trees, and the media make continually reports about it thus become an important role in propelling the event forward. Finally, city government introduce. the policy " afforest assessment", which regulates that any construction work concerning the remove of phoenix trees should solicit opinions from citizen representatives and experts. Introducing the public participation program is the most significant sense of "afforest assessment". To some extent, this is the victory of the people’s will.This test focus on the propelling of media to the public policy making in the event of phoenix trees remove. The text starts with the agenda setting and changing, propelling of media to the policy making process, the focus of media to "afforest assessment". Attempt to discuss the role that media plays in this event.Furthermore, if we make research the reports in the event in the view of frame theory, we can find the reports all follow a series of media frame, and there is an implicated image of the city which constructed of the frames, in the other words,it’s the expect of the citizens to the city. This kind of express is silence, however, the text thinks, this express is important to propelling public participation in the event.