The Role of Media in Emergency Management
Journal Title: Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods - Year 2006, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
It’s very important for the government to let the public correctly understand the current conditions and guide them to create a favorable atmosphere for solution to the incident through media. Therefore, media are indispensable in the process of emergency management. But media is widely viewed as biased. We investigate the news release when an emergency incident happened based on game mode with assumptions that audiences prefer information consistent with their beliefs, and that media often slant stories toward these beliefs. We show that, competition cannot reduce bias but the price, and reader heterogeneity is more important for accuracy in media than competition. It is shown that the government should loosen the media constrain but not let go completely. Then some suggestions were given to improve the quality of media information to let the public correctly understand the current conditions and guide them to create a favorable atmosphere for solution to the incident through media.
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Zhao SHUHONG, Chen AN
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