Hart P Sol, Chinn Sedona, Soroka Stuart
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Sci Commun. 2020 Oct;42(5):679-697. doi: 10.1177/1075547020950735.
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.
本研究考察了2020年3月至5月美国报纸和电视网络新闻中有关新冠疫情新闻的政治化和两极分化程度。通过多种计算机辅助内容分析方法，我们发现报纸报道的政治化程度很高，网络新闻报道的政治化程度稍低，而且报纸和网络新闻报道都高度两极分化。我们发现，政治家在报纸报道中出现的频率高于科学家，而在网络新闻中，政治家和科学家的出现频率更为均衡。我们认为，新冠疫情初期报道的高度政治化和两极分化可能加剧了美国民众对新冠疫情态度的两极分化。
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