ABSTRACT

This study examines how two major news outlets framed COVID-19 in the months leading up to COVID-19 being declared a pandemic. A combination of computational and manual coding found that the dominant media frames were outbreak, economic consequences, and social consequences. A secondary component of the analysis examined the sources quoted in early media coverage and found that citizens, interest group individuals, and politicians were quoted the most. This suggests that early news coverage of COVID-19 might have contributed to the current politicization of the virus in the United States.

中文翻译：

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我们是怎么来到这里的？早期COVID-19媒体报道的框架和来源分析

摘要

这项研究调查了在导致COVID-19被宣布为大流行之前的两个月中，两个主要新闻媒体如何对COVID-19进行陷害。计算和手动编码的结合发现，主要的媒体框架是爆发，经济后果和社会后果。分析的第二部分检查了早期媒体报道中引用的消息来源，发现被引用最多的是公民，利益集团个人和政治人物。这表明对COVID-19的早期新闻报道可能导致了该病毒在美国的当前政治化。