Journalistic Ethical Practices Across Borders: Framing Analysis and Ethical Reflection on China Daily's Coverage of the MU5735 Air Crash

Leiya Tian

doi:10.30560/hssr.v8n1p66

Leiya Tian College of Business and Media, Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30560/hssr.v8n1p66

Keywords: disaster reporting, journalism ethics, framework analysis

Abstract

Air crash reporting is one of the types of disaster news, which should follow the ethical guidelines of journalism. Under the theoretical perspective of Zang Guoren's three levels of news frame analysis, China Daily's news about the MU5735 air disaster presents the unique frame of China's mainstream foreign propaganda media in reporting China's sudden disaster events with various thematic frames and effective textual applications. Using frame analysis and case study analysis as research methods, the study explores the characteristics and ethical performance of China Daily's frames of reporting on the MU5735 air disaster. The study finds that China Daily's coverage of the disaster demonstrated the media's distinctive value stance and basically adhered to the ethical principles of journalism in disaster reporting, while at the same time there was a lack of constructive discourse.

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