The “Weak” Legitimacy And “Strong” Stigma Construction In News

This article from the perspective of three-level news framework study "Xia Junfeng case" of "weak" and "strong" news image, showing mirrored media under the "weakness" of the legitimacy and "the strong" of pollution name of Construction.First, the present study on the "Xia Junfeng case" recalls sort made, Xia Junfeng presented by the High Court approved the death penalty phase of the trend of public opinion, on the basis of the opinion,the study select the sample, sample selection is from the second trial sentenced to approval from Xia Junfeng death penalty, during which the media reported the number of rich and varied perspectives. Second, the combination of reports, analysis hawkers as weak and as strong urban image through the media, the use of Zangguo Ren three levels of theoretical analysis framework connotation, from the high-level structure(topics), the hierarchy(the main event, the previous events, history, results, impact, attribution, assessment, etc.), low-level structure(word, sentence, rhetoric, etc.) examine the text frame information, the development process to construct the case as "weak" and hawkers' strong "the urban image. Finally, the study in the news text frame based on the analysis of the operating mechanism framework to do dynamic analysis, pointed out that media reports required by the selection mechanism, restructuring mechanism for the framework construct and convey meaning, the media reproducing social reality by running frame, but also become a major source of stereotype and prejudice.In this study, "Xia Junfeng case" as hawkers chased the weak and the strong image as the paper points out the media by making the weak construction of the frame has legitimacy, while being strong stigma. News framework for the formation of a weak report scale, become the core unit is described, various news media by genre and vocabulary given the weak "legitimacy", on the contrary, "the strong" rarely occupy the major news events, the strong previous under the definition of media and public events stereotype stigmatized Construction. Media presentation "legitimacy" and "stigma" It is through the framework of social cognition and run operation, which formed a "label" of stereotypes and collective memories, prejudices which lead generation, and prejudice and as audiences framework part of the media will once again choose a framework for restructuring the production system.