本文由風險社會的角度切入，以八八風災的新聞報導為分析對象，試圖理解並詮釋媒體與新聞報導在風險社會中的角色與意義。本文認為，八八風災是個災難，但並不是風險，而是經由媒體與訊息的生產，才成為具體風險，因此新聞報導和媒體內容的生產與現代社會及現代性息息相關。透過Giddens, Luhmann與Beck的鉅觀風險社會輪廓，災難報導連結社會結構與行動演化，創造媒體巨怪卻生產不確定，並透過知識的支配而取代過去生產關係，成為社會的動力來源。於是，未來被納入現在，成為時間上恆久的風險；空間被跨越而成為全球的風險；而階級因生產關係的被取代而消逝，使風險脫離階級，任意蔓延。然而，它不僅是第二現代中脫離理性的巨怪，更重要的是批判媒體成為內在扭曲且不斷再製的封閉系統，但卻掌握知識與定義權力，而對社會世界產生威脅。

This paper is making an attempt to understand and interpret the role of media and news reporting in risk society, especially in the case of “88 Ty-phoons”. By standing upon the theoretical perspective of risk society, we argue “88 Typhoons” shouldn’t be recognized as a disaster only. Through the produc-tion and reproduction of media and message, it has transformed to be (a form of) substantial risk. Moreover, it simply validates the argument that the news re-porting, the production of media content, modern society and modernity are indeed inseparable. With Giddens, Luhmann and Beck who had already pro-vided a macroscopic theoretical framework of risk society, it is argued disaster reporting connects social structure and actions to create the so called ‘media juggernaut’ and continuously produces uncertainty. In their defense, knowledge control has become the new resource for social movement which raises the pos-sibility of overtaking the original understanding of Marx’s traditional produc-tion relations. In this regard, future is included in the ‘present’ and has become a perpetual global risk across time and space. Class is dissolved because of the collapse of Marx’s production relation. Risk can therefore depart from social classes and expand itself that constructs and consolidates the reflective society within second modernity.