The Analysis of 2007 APEC News Coverage on the ABC, CNN and Xinhua Websites/ L'ANALYSE SUR LES NOUVELLES DE L'APEC SUR LES SITES WEB D'ABC, CNN ET XINHUA EN 2007

Abstract: This essay examines major issues of Australia, the United States and China concerned about in the 2007 APEC Summit held in Australia, and discusses the attitudes of these three countries towards to the 2007 APEC, by examining all the articles about 2007 APEC Summit from three major websites from these countries, ABC, CNN and Xinhua websites. Key words: 2007 APEC Summit; ABC; CNN; Xinhua Resume: Cet article examine les grands evenements de l'Australie, des Etats-Unis et de la Chine au Sommet de l'APEC 2007, qui s'est tenue en Australie, et examine les attitudes de ces trois pays vis-a-vis de l'APEC 2007 en examinant tous les articles sur le Sommet de l'APEC 2007 dans les trois grands sites Web de ces pays, ABC, CNN et Xinhua. Mots-cles: sommet APEC 2007, ABC, CNN, Xinhua 1. INTRODUCTION The Internet, as one of the major mass media forms, is playing a more and more important role nowadays in disseminating information, advocating ideas, promoting products and providing entertainment. Compared with the TV, radio and newspapers, which are more confined to fixed timetables, patterns, styles, columns, cycles of publicity, the Internet is more instantaneous and flexible with time, providing more diversified and multimedia messages, and combining different media resources. Therefore, it now becomes the main source of information for many people and has attracted attention from almost all the major media bodies in the world to set up their websites, which are often backed up by local governments or financial institutions and, to some extent, reflect what their sponsors would like to express. Considering the role the Internet plays and the large amount of information it can convey, this paper chooses the Internet as the target media for the research. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes, concerns and expectations of different APEC member economies during the 2007 APEC Summit held in Sydney from 2nd to 9th September, 2007, by analyzing the messages released by three major websites which included the ABC, Australia, the CNN, the US, and Xinhua, China, all of which, to my knowledge, voice the views and ideas of their governments to some degree. The reason for my focus on these websites from these three countries is obvious. First of all, as the host country of the 2007 APEC, Australia would pay great attention to the meeting and, in return, would have a great expectation of the outcome from it. Then, as the superpower in the world, the US has played the crucial role in world affairs and presumably has a bigger say in the international community than any of other countries in the world. Finally, as a fast economic developing country and my home country, China has always been my heart felt place and attracts my attention and care. 1.1 Background information about APEC 1.1.1 A Brief History of APEC The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental premier forum, which aims at promoting economic growth and prosperity, cooperation, trade and investments in the Asia-Pacific region and consists of 21 member economies, located in four continents, representing the most economically dynamic region in the world, with approximately 40% of the world's population, 56% of the world's GDP and 48% of the world's trade. The 21 APEC Member Economies include Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; the People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Peru; the Republic of the Philippines; the Russian Federation; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; United States and Vietnam (APEC, http://www.apec2007.org /apec.aspx? ine= ap/ap). The APEC Economic Leaders Meeting (AELM) is considered one of the most significant international summits in the world that brings the top leaders of many important countries together. In the AELM, leaders from different countries address and discuss issues of strategic importance to their own countries as well as to the region, and at the end of the meeting, the APEC Economic Leaders Declaration will be published to indicate the shared views of the leaders and set APEC's strategic directions for the next year (Australian Government, http://www. …

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