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More than mortality data: a news media analysis of COVID-19 deaths in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Pub Date : 2021-03-31 , DOI: 10.1080/1177083x.2021.1905006
Tessa Morgan 1 , Melissa Carey 1 , Merryn Gott 1 , Lisa Williams 1 , Victoria Egli 1 , Natalie Anderson 1, 2
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ABSTRACT

News media have an important social role during times of disruption including national emergencies. This paper bears witness to the 21 New Zealanders who died during the first lockdown due to COVID-19 by critically examining the nature of their portrayal in mainstream newspapers. We searched Knowledgebasket for newspapers published between 28 February 2020 and 13 May 2020 relating to COVID-19 deaths. Of the 147 included articles, 50 were selected for in-depth thematic analysis. Our key finding is that COVID-19 made the death of ordinary older New Zealanders newsworthy, albeit in a way that distinguished individuals by residential status. This is reflected in the themes identified: (1) Unexpected community deaths; (2) Inevitable aged residential care deaths; (3) Justification for lockdown measures. We conclude that New Zealand journalists played an important advocacy role in justifying New Zealand’s ‘go hard go early’ approach through the largely compassionate coverage of older people’s deaths.



中文翻译:

不仅仅是死亡率数据:对新西兰 Aotearoa 的 COVID-19 死亡人数的新闻媒体分析

摘要

新闻媒体在包括国家紧急情况在内的混乱时期发挥着重要的社会作用。本文通过批判性地检查主流报纸对他们的描绘的性质,见证了在第一次封锁期间因 COVID-19 而死亡的 21 名新西兰人。我们在 Knowledgebasket 中搜索了 2020 年 2 月 28 日至 2020 年 5 月 13 日期间出版的与 COVID-19 死亡相关的报纸。在纳入的 147 篇文章中,选择了 50 篇进行深入的专题分析。我们的主要发现是,COVID-19 使普通年长的新西兰人的死亡具有新闻价值,尽管是以居住身份区分个人的方式。这反映在确定的主题中: (1) 意外的社区死亡;(二)不可避免的养老院养老死亡;(3) 采取封锁措施的理由。

更新日期:2021-03-31
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