The Ideology Analysis of Neo-liberalism in the Taiwanese Professional Financial Newspapers－with Commercial Times and Economic Daily News as Examples

• Main Authors: Siang-Rong Jhuo, 卓向榮
• Other Authors: Yi-Kuo Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46405522570365166648

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 大眾傳播學系碩士班 === 94 === In the process of the development of Neo-liberalism from developed countries to developing countries, it is evident that no beneficial outcome happened to those countries. On the contrary, due to the over-emphasis on its economic logic and adoption of financial deregulations, an Asian financial crisis almost triggered a world-wide economic instability. Parsons, a British scholar, said that the power of the finance media is to establish a community of economic discourse and to characterize what the members of community talk about and it can therefore changes the readers’ opinions and attitudes. This research, using the two representative financial newspapers-Commercial Times and Economic Daily News, analysis the power relationships and the presentation of Neo-liberalism in these two newspapers.. After a through discussion of its developing context, practices of policies, theories, and its influences, this research has chosen several financial reformation issues proposed by the Chen Shui-Bian’s government as the center of analysis. The analytic framework of research includes: 1.Economic growth will follow by deregulations? 2.Privatization is in favor of the general public? 3.Marketplace is equivalence to the justice of distribution? From the narrative structure, this research finds that both the two newspapers all emphasize “the left hand” defined by Bourdieu, and the stress heavily on economic advantages of the gains. It also finds that the voice of business sector is much more valued information source. And the exclusion or highlights of certain issues are clearly evident. Such practices reflect and safeguard the economic interests of capital class. The voice of labor and the public, however, is ignored. Commercial Times is more serious than Economic Daily News in this regard.