茂名PX事件吵得沸反盈天,政府与民众的博弈陷入僵局,最后茂名政府只得声明不会违背民意上PX项目。这是继厦门、大连、昆明、宁波、什邡等地类似事件后的又一波反PX风波。这接二连三的反对PX项目事件说明:PX项目在当下中国似乎成了无解的难题。在这过程中,媒体扮演了极为重要的角色。不论是传统媒体,还是新媒体,也不论是地方媒体,还是中央媒体,它们在以PX项目事件为代表的环境事件中均扮演了不 The Maoming PX incident was furious and the game between the government and the public was stalled. At last, the Maoming government only had to declare that it would not violate the public opinion on the PX project. This is yet another wave of anti-PX turmoil following similar incidents in Xiamen, Dalian, Kunming, Ningbo and Shifang. This one after another opposition to the PX project shows that the PX project in China now appears to be a problem that has no solution. In the process, the media played an extremely important role. Whether it is traditional media, new media, local media, or central media, they all play an important role in environmental events represented by PX events