IntroductionAmerican writer Gertrude Stein uses "There's No One There" in the book Everybody's Autobiography to describe Oakland. He spent his childhood in Oakland, but felt that Oakland was not authentic. When he mentioned France, where he lived most of his life, he said: “It's not real but it's really there” (Stein 1970: 2). France is more tangible to her than her nation. What does the nation mean to Stein? What is the essence of the nation? Watson postulates that “a nation is a community of people, the members of which are bound together by a sense of solidarity, a common culture, a national consciousness” (Watson 1997: 1). A more familiar definition was coined by Anderson: “It is a political community imagined and imagined as intrinsically limited and sovereign” (Anderson 1991: 6). If Anderson's definition is rigorous, why did Stein fail to perceive the intimate connection with America? Stein failed to maintain U.S. identification according to her childhood memory. On the contrary, his real life is in France, it is not his imagination. Robins in his book considers people like Stein as the “empirical people” (Robins 2003: 196). The imagined community is not distinct to them because it is far from real life. The imagined community cannot always overcome reality. It can therefore be postulated that the nation is based on the sense of belonging to an imagined community, but it is not a compulsive ideology; the sense of belonging can become vague when the individual lacks interaction with the nation. So how to maintain the population's sense of belonging becomes a fundamental question for the nation. This is why the nation has aimed to build an intimate relationship with the medi...... middle of paper ......Ruigrok, Nel and Atteveldt, Wouter van, Global Angling with a Local Angle: How US, British and Dutch Newspapers Framing Global and Local Terrorist Attacks, Harvard International Journal of Press, Politics 2007, volume:12.Robins, Kevin, Beyond Imagined Community? Transnational Media and Turkish Immigrants in Europe, Media in a Globalized Society, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003.Stein, Gertrude, Paris, France, New York: Liver Light, 1970.Volkmer, I, Journalism and Political Crises: In Journalism after September 11, London, New York: Routledge, 2002. Watson, Hugh Seton, Nations and States: An Inquiry into the Origins of Nations, Politics and Nationalism, Methuen young books, 1977. Zakaria, Fareed, How to invest jobs for America, November 1, 2010.(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/29/zakaria.create.jobs/index.html?iref=allsearch)