School of Liberal Arts, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, China.
J Environ Public Health. 2022 Sep 12;2022:9033781. doi: 10.1155/2022/9033781. eCollection 2022.
The water pollution affecting human health is a crisis and big test, which tests the mainstream news media's ability and level of communication to respond to major public opinions and public emergencies. The contaminated water is a crisis and a major test, which tests the ability and level of communication of major news outlets to respond to important common views and emergencies. It aims to understand the perception and attitude of the international mainstream media towards China during the contaminated water. The work sorted out the mainstream media's reporting of China from the contaminated water to the present and selected the New York Times, The Times, and the Guardian as examples. We could understand the changes in China's international image during the water pollution through these mainstream media reports on China. The results show that these media reports on water pollution in China mainly focused on negative public opinion, which accounted for more than 70% of the total number of reports. Western developed countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States are out of consideration for their national interests. Using mainstream media to create public opinion that is not conducive to China, advocating "neo-colonialism", "China threat theory" and other false statements, trying to limit China's influence, due to the difference in cognitive habits and the influence of British and American media hegemony also affects the country The communication and understanding between the two have brought obstacles.
受污染的水是一场危机，也是对主流新闻媒体应对重大舆情和公共突发事件的能力和沟通水平的一次重大考验。旨在了解国际主流媒体在受污染水事件期间对中国的看法和态度。该工作梳理了受污染水事件以来国际主流媒体对中国的报道情况，并选取《纽约时报》《泰晤士报》《卫报》作为案例，通过这些主流媒体对中国受污染水事件的报道，了解中国在水污染事件期间国际形象的变化。结果表明，这些媒体对中国水污染事件的报道主要集中在负面舆情上，占总报道数的 70%以上。英、美等西方发达国家出于国家利益的考虑，利用主流媒体制造不利于中国的舆论，鼓吹“新殖民主义”“中国威胁论”等不实言论，试图限制中国的影响力，由于认知习惯的差异以及英美媒体霸权的影响，也给两国的沟通和了解带来障碍。
