A Comparative Study Of Food Safety In People's Daily And The Washington Post

As a big problem which is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, the food safety problem has become the focus of the mass media for a long time. Especially when we join the WTO, the food safety is not the problem which is concerned by the domestic under the background of international economic integration. In recent years, although the negative aspects of our country's food safety issues have been greatly reduced, the reality is still not optimistic. The "food safety problem" has been the "people's most concerned problem" for four years. Poisonous bean sprouts, zombie meat, carcinogenic brown sugar and rice and false still affect the public's nerves.The news media plays a very important role in the food safety problem and has a lot of functions such as the communication of information. The public's attitude towards the food safety almost comes from the news media. Because of the influence of the globalization, once the food safety problem appeared, the image of the exporter will inevitably be affected. Because different country has different opinions, therefore, the way they report the news is totally different.Based on the content analysis and literature analysis, the text analyzed the food safety report of the<the people's daily>and<the Washington post> during the June to September in 2015 and will be divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 mainly introduced the topic background, significance, research methods and research status. Chapter 2 firstly defines the concept of food, food safety and food safety reports and tells Chinese and American's food safety reports from three stages. Chapter 3, based on content analysis, compares respectively from the theme, the report form, tone, report layout, language style of<the People's Daily> and<the Washington post> and finds the similarities and differences between two newspapers in the food safety report. Chapter4 mainly focus on the reasons why these differences appeared. Chapter 5 gives the suggestion to our food safety report.