Research On Political News Of The U.S Television Media

When political meet with TV,they depend on each other. on one hand, the politicians use the TV media as a mouthpiece to let the audiences know the ruling policy of government and shape their "subjective reality" through "symbolic reality" which is constructed by the television media;On the other hand,As the fourth power independent from the three powers, TV media are not willing to be a natural watchdog of the government. Finding behaviors of government officials against laws and disciplines, TV media take their responsibilities of supervision and criticism.The reason of selecting U.S.television media as research object is that the United States was the original place of the modern media.the mass media environment and transmission mechanism are relatively perfect and consummate in the United States. This research choose depth reports of "60Minutes" as sample due to its stabilized attitudes to the News.It could restore the essence of news better and help people get close to the attitude of media and the government easily.Therefore, this study attempts to quantitatively analyze the program content with some aspects like news type,number of reports,interviewee’s status,racial characteristic and reporting attitude.Then, the study eventually want to find the hidden relationship between the media and the government through uncovering the mask of political reports.Finally,this paper finds that the relationship between the media and the government conforms to the cooperative game theory.this type of relevance is reflected through the strategies which is adopted in political news reports.