| The world witnessed a dynamic economic development,meanwhile,there arose a variety of environmental problems which restricted the quality and speed of economic development,causing physical and mental harm to human.Mass communication,as a social lookout,shoulders the responsibility of environmental monitoring.So,environmental news should keep a close look at change and development of natural environment.Therefore,environmental news can call social attention and then solve the problem by reporting environmental incidents.However,there are gaps between China's environmental news and other countries,lacking relevant theoretical and practical guidance which restricted our environmental news development.For this reason,this paper want to find environmental news reporting framework through SinoUS comparison and learn some advanced experience.“Flint pollution incidence” refers to that Flint drinking system is poisoned by lead because of various missteps of government,resulting an elevated blood lead level in 8000 children.“Changwai” is the abbreviation of Changzhou Foreign language school.And “Changwai pollution incidence” means Changwai's new site is just a road across a long-term contaminated plot,many students are found physical abnormality after moving to the new campus.The author selected The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal ‘s report on the "Flint water contamination" incidence,the Sino counter-part is Changzhou Foreign Language School incident from The People's Daily,The Beijing News and Xinhuanet.The research use exhaustive search method within the time range to ensure that the material is newest and comprehensive.The research method combined qualitative method with quantitative method,according to Gamson's four-dimensional theory on media framework,i.e.the news topic(content selection),external manifestation(news length and location),cognitive attributes(details included in the framework)and feelings Attribute(the tone of the whole news).And the author will follow this path and make some innovation.The reason is that environmental news has a scientific attribute so it must involve substance definition and explanation.Additionally,there are four traditional media and they are all confronted with impact from Internet and mobile internet,so the author want to study their media transformation strategy.Therefore,the author combine Gamson's theory with environmental news scientificalness and new media solution,building eight analytical categories.Chart two-Research diagramThe study shows that there are similarities and differences between US and Chinese environmental news.US and Chinese counterpart share similarities on relying on authoritative news source,on employing more in-depth reporting and editorial.Differences lay on agenda preference,reporting continuity,report genre choice,employment of picture and chart.In addition,US reporting seems to pay more attention to new media element and scientific explanation.Finally,the author find out that the US media put Flint affair into a macro background and introduced 10 pairs of contradictions and conflicts,employing a conflict framework.While the Chinese media adopt an attribution framework,aiming to find effective solution to toxic land.Different frameworks are mainly determined by media nature,market positioning,and by state history,culture and reality.Absorbing advanced experience at home and abroad,China's media news reports can be developed from the following aspects: establishing long-term environmental agenda;using multiple perspectives;increasing the proportion of human touch frame,balancing the source to avoid standardization;Absorbing more visual elements(like photo,cartoon)and new media trial;cultivating a high-quality environmental journalists team with environmental science knowledge. |
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