Study On The Government And Media's Rights And Responsibilities Of Localization And Interact Mechanism In Public Crisis Management

In modern world, the earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters have occurred frequently. The epidemic diseases, food safety crisis, mass riots and other public events have been happening one by one. All of these have seriously affected the security of human's lives and property and social harmony and stability. How to prevent and deal with the public crisis is a major issue that all countries and governments should face.The China government insists the principle of people-oriented, prevention first and combining prevention with control during the process of crisis management. We have built initial the system of public crisis management which include the decision-making, mobilization, management and control to contain effectively the large-scale and high-hazard public crisis. On the other hand, it can't evade the deficiencies in the government crisis management, such as the unsound legal system, uniform between the policies and system, the irrational crisis management structure, unclear responsibilities, imperfect interdepartmental coordination mechanism and accountability of officials and so on.The versatile government dominates everything and deals with all the social public affairs in the traditional administrative model. There is a simple relationship between the government and the media in managers and by managers. Representing the people to manage the social public affairs, government which is the leader with the public power takes measures of prevention, control, emergency response, crisis recovery and others to minimize the harm on citizens'life and property. As a public resource, media that is the co-worker with the government in crisis management represents the public to perform the social watch functions. In the practice of crisis management, media has the responsibility to warn early the outbreak of crisis, inform the public about government's crisis decision-making and action to meet the public's right to get information, supervise government's action and shape the image of the government.The media does the crisis relief under the leadership of the government for the different powers and responsibilities of government and media. They carry out their duties, mutual cooperation and mutual supervision. In the public crisis management, the media plays effectively not only a "fourth power", but also the government's partner. In order to keep our public crisis management system adapt to the changing situation, it needs establish the head of the center command system, improve crisis warning coordination mechanisms and accountability system. It should further improve the system of government press releases system in the interaction between the government and the media, and make full use of the network, television, newspapers, brochures and other mass media to form a good situation which the government, the media and the public rely on each other, mutual support and supervision in public crisis management.