Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage.
COVID-19
media coverage
polarization
politicization
risk communication
Journal
Science communication
ISSN: 1075-5470
Titre abrégé: Sci Commun
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9889281
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
Historique:
medline:
1
10
2020
pubmed:
1
10
2020
entrez:
11
4
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study examines the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in U.S. newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020. Using multiple computer-assisted content analytic approaches, we find that newspaper coverage is highly politicized, network news coverage somewhat less so, and both newspaper and network news coverage are highly polarized. We find that politicians appear in newspaper coverage more frequently than scientists, whereas politicians and scientists are more equally featured in network news. We suggest that the high degree of politicization and polarization in initial COVID-19 coverage may have contributed to polarization in U.S. COVID-19 attitudes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38602988
doi: 10.1177/1075547020950735
pii: 10.1177_1075547020950735
pmc: PMC7447862
doi:
Types de publication
News
Langues
eng
Pagination
679-697Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2020.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.