Freedom Of Expression On China And America Political Figures In Comics

The article analyzes the news express on China and America political figures in comics, a case study of Southern Weekend and New York Times in 2013-2014 two years.Article picked the 72 samples as subject, involved politicians,political subject, political implications, political attitude is the basis of the analysis, the author attempted to compare differences between China and the US political caricature and reasons on news express.Article takes content analysis, text analysis, In combination with the literature method and the comparative analysis.Political theme and political implications is the basis of analysis of the comic,the article found that,In the political cartoons,the two countries have many differences in topic selection, character types, political attitude and comic source.The article analyzes that the economic and diplomatic political cartoons theme is the focus.The Chinese media in addition to observe the US economy as the focus, but also in pursuit of promoting democracy and reform, strive to play a watchdog role.In the pursuit of news express, the American media show political elections in the comics directly.The Chinese media is relatively conservative, choose something else to describe itself.Behind the comics,there is a game between civil rights and political decisions.Two countries both explored that,news comics should be constrained by some public interest and ethics.Focusing on different themes expression,mining political implications shades all is the differences in the news express on China and America.There are three reasons behind the differences.Firstly,the inherent differences of cultural institutions and ideology between the two countries;Secondly,differences between the two political systems of government functions;finally,there are obviously different media news value orientation and expression of style.The purpose of the article is to find the differences and reasons in news express between the two countries.The article show the efforts paid by Chinese media in the pursuit of news express.