中國綠色媒體：反怒江大壩之媒體角色

Abstract

中國環境保護主義記者在近期的反怒江大壩運動中，整合水電移民的草根抗爭以及黨政媒體的力量，成功引發龐大輿論以影響中國中央決策，乃至展現中國社會與國家的關係逐漸轉變，尤其媒體在受到中央控管之下，還得以發揮民間社會的強大力量，證明中國綠色媒體在中國邁向民主化的過程中扮演不可或缺的角色。

Media in China are generally categorized as the extensions of propaganda machine for the central government, because despite media commercialization, China maintains heavy-handed censorship at the whim of political will. However, there are still instances in which journalists are active participants of social movements in China. One recent case in particular is the “Battle to Protect the Nu River,” in which China’s environmental NGOs, scholars, and media formed joint coalition to fight off the Nu River Project, and stop efforts to build hydropower plants on Nujiang. This paper uses John Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model to map out the ways in which the Policy Entrepreneurs – environmental journalists – capitalized on tools of the press to influence public opinion and decision-makers in the government, systematically brought the anti-NRP campaign up to the policy agenda, and eventually swayed the outcome of the national policy. Since the beginning of the proposal to build a cascade of 13 dams on the World Heritage site of Nujiang in 2003, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao personally intervened, and twice ordered suspension of the project. Therefore, while the final outcome of the anti-NRP campaign is still pending, at least China’s environmental journalists have successfully prolonged the unusual nine-year hiatus on a project that was slated for three consecutive Five-Year Plans.