On the basis of the analysis of the relationship between media attention, government audit, and financial security ofthe same framework, this article first constructs the econometric model to test the role of the path between media attention, government audit and public financial security. Then, by using the result of multiple regressions, the article indicates that government audit plays an intermediary role in the media attention to safeguarding local financial security. That is, media attention plays an effective role in safeguarding the local financial security by acting on the' immunity' function of government audit, defending function of government audit and the preventing function.