The Professional Performance And The Populist Representation Of Media Political Reporting

The meaning of 2016 election of Donald trump' victory is an epoch-making event,and it's also an unprecedented blow to the traditional media dominated by newspapers and television.Means of communication which middle America's political elite relies upon now are facing the challenge of social media as a representative of new media,shaking the west's centuries-old rules in guiding public opinion,setting up agenda and arousing communities.As a representative of traditional media,New York Times has been playing a huge propagation force and influence in all elections of the United States,because traditional media always plays a crucial role as the fourth power to maintain the democratic political system,national interests and multiculturalism.Today,populist ideological trend has began to shake the fundamental of American's liberalism,we have to think about where is the future of traditional media,and what needs to be made of the corresponding adjustment and change,how to improve the public wary of populist ideological trend to reduce the negative impact of media technology revolution and establish a benign ecological relationship with the democratic politics.This study taking the last general ELECTION coverage of the "ELECTION 2016" column of New York Times as the study of the text,through the study of the category of sample construction with analysis on the reported theme,tendency and sources of York Times.Further discusses the results of the analysis and the journalistic professionalism of New York Times coverage in the 2016 ELECTION.Studies have found that the New York Times while sticking to the authenticity and comprehensiveness,but facing the problem of being objective and fair.In addition,the New York Times has show an obvious partisan political tendency.At the influence of populist ideological trend,the study has found the New York Times hasn't undertake the social responsibility of maintaining democratic politics.Instead,to a certain extent,it has actively use the populist language as the frame of the news reports,or passively broadcast populist ideological in the explanatory reporting,which has amplifying the voice of populist,boosting the development of the populist wave,brought a great impact to the United States or even global political democracy.Finally,the paper analyzes the political challenges which New York Times are facing under new media environment,and author expressed personal views on the direction adjustment of the New York Times,which hopefully the media will continues to play its role to maintain democracy in the future political reporting.