A Comparative Analysis Of News Reports About The East Japanese Earthquake In People’s Daily And New York Times

Since human society is born, all kinds of disaster events as the shadow follows the form,pay attention to avoid disaster, disaster is a human instinct. With the development of economyand the advent of the information society, people pay more attention to the disaster and itsrelated information. As the social environment monitor in the mass media, disaster newsreport is the unshirkable responsibility. Disaster of news value of the elements, the influenceon international environment also has the particularity and penetrating, is one of the mostnewsworthy. The international disaster news accomplish accurate reports, a symbol of thenation on the world situation has keen insight, but also reflects the state ’s economic strengthand medium development level, is to show the world the strength of a window. In recent years,China’s media including earthquake reports, reports of unexpected events are paying more andmore attention, in the report timeliness and accuracy obtained great progress, news of thelevel also greatly improved. However, China’s media in international disaster event reports,still exist deficiencies.In March11,2011, the northeastern Japan Sea earthquake and tsunami, caused heavycasualties and property losses, and caused the first nuclear power plant nuclear leakageaccident." People’s Daily" and " New York Times" are the first time the earthquake wasreported at the time, and maintained the continuity. The different media of the same incidentreports are different, it is the comparative analysis provides space.The first chapter introduces the background and the research significance, the secondchapter with a large collection of" people’s Daily" and" New York Times" of the Japaneseearthquake do report details for the foundation, separately from the reported amount, contentof reports etc., will" New York times" and the" people’s Daily" analysis.The third chapter and the fourth chapter in the second chapter, based on the comparison,comparison of two daily reported that in the presence of the common and different points, andtwo reported different reasons, in the fifth chapter, through dialectical analysis of two reports in report of respective advantages and disadvantages, put forward our country medium topromote the international disaster report level method of.Finally, comparative analysis of this article concluding statement. International reportedthat more should have objective criteria and a tendency to strengthen the newspaper as theguiding role of mass media on public opinion. The level of investigative reporting of themedia in China need to further improve, and called on the depth of reporting and commentingon the attention.