Emerging Domestic Financial Newspaper Sources Use And Biased Research

Along with the rapid development of market economy, increasingly complicated economic phenomena are coming to light now. In the process of interaction and integration between knowledge and market economy, business news begin to be realized by more and more audiences, in order to understand the complicated economic phenomena from a macroscopic perspective. Business news has becoming an essential column in Chinese news report, which concerns the national economy and the people’s livelihood.In the process of news production, journalists, as the authors of news discourses, are not the discourse subject. Most of them are done by hand with other person’s words and their social network to collect materials, which they had no chance to see. Therefore, some of the ideas may be reproduced many times, while others ignored a great amount of empirical studies appeared to support the belief that the bias of the news sources can be found in attributes such as gender, region and identity.To ensure professionalism and authority of business news, journalists typically rely on authoritative sources to describe and prove in writing. To the news resources of financial medias, which have the high end of the market, the bias of them is also worth to study further.According to the fast developing of business news and related research, the thesis select "financial report of the21st century" for content analysis, focusing on the uses of its news resources. Based on statistical data, the paper shows the bias of news sources in business news, discussing powers which cause the bias.The main points of this thesis are as follows:Chapter1is introduction, pointing out the background information and the reason of writing this paper, putting forward the point of the study based on the literature review.Chapter2involves an overview of some of the major concepts and the history of Chinese business news. The sample of financial report of the21st is chosen.Chapter3is about the detailed analysis of the sample news sources are divided into3indexes such as position, channel and basic attribute (character and organization attribute). The thesis has made concrete analysis for the character attribute of news sources, which has subdivided into occupational distribution, the way of quotation and function. The results show that the bias of the business news sources can be found in attributes such as region, channel and basic attribute, especially in job attribute of experts and scholars, business elites and public official.Chapter4analyzes effect factors of bias of business news resources, from the perspectives of political propaganda, power of market, intellectual hegemony and the media itself, pointing out that the reasons which causes the bias are media routine and other environmental factors such as political power, Public Relations and Advertising and voice of intellectual elites.Chapter5mainly analyzes consequences of financial news sources bias, from the market competitiveness and media discourse of weak groups’aspects.