{"id":119037,"date":"2020-11-24T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/u-s-media-coverage-of-coronavirus-is-far-more-negative-than-elsewhere-university-researchers-conclude\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T10:27:00","slug":"u-s-media-coverage-of-coronavirus-is-far-more-negative-than-elsewhere-university-researchers-conclude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/u-s-media-coverage-of-coronavirus-is-far-more-negative-than-elsewhere-university-researchers-conclude\/","title":{"rendered":"#\n  U.S. media coverage of coronavirus is far more negative than elsewhere, university researchers conclude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e7d754ffbc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 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Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> coverage of coronavirus is far more negative than elsewhere, university researchers conclude<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\">\n<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000077718\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n              \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n        media-object\n        type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          inline\n  article__inset\n        article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:67.34375%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"67.34375%\" data-layout-ratio=\"67.34375%\" data-subtype=\"\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=140&amp;size=1.4849187935034802 140w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=540&amp;size=1.4849187935034802 540w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=620&amp;size=1.4849187935034802 620w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=700&amp;size=1.4849187935034802 700w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=860&amp;size=1.4849187935034802 860w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=1260&amp;size=1.4849187935034802 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 700px) 660px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=620&amp;size=1.4849187935034802\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263683?width=1260&amp;size=1.4849187935034802\" alt=\"\" title=\"Relentlessly negative?\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relentlessly_negative\"><\/span>Relentlessly negative?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>      <span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\" itemprop=\"creator\"><br \/>\n            saul loeb\/Agence France-Presse\/Getty Images<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>       It was sometime after the end of the first coronavirus wave that Bruce Sacerdote, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College, noticed something puzzling. \u201cWe were doing lots of staying at home and social distancing, and you could see the case numbers coming down, and I and my co-authors are watching the TV obsessively, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> isn\u2019t getting any better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       So he and his co-authors, Ranjan Sehgal of Dartmouth and Molly Cook of Brown University, decided to crunch the numbers.  They analyzed the tone of COVID-19\u2013related news stories appearing in the mainstream U.S. media and tran<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>s from television broadcasts \u2014 the likes of the New York Times, CNN and Fox News \u2014 and compared them to the content appearing in both international media outlets and scientific journals.<\/p>\n<p> What they found, they say, was startling negativity in the mainstream U.S. media. For example, 90% of school-reopening articles from the U.S. mainstream media were negative, versus only 56% for the English-language media in other countries. Stories of increasing COVID-19 cases outnumbered stories about decreasing cases by a factor of 5.5 \u2014 even during periods when new cases were declining,<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w28110?utm_campaign=ntwh&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ntwg24\" class=\"icon none\"> according to a working paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting finding is the negativity wasn\u2019t correlated with partisanship \u2014 Fox News, for example, was as negative in tone as CNN. \u201cThe U.S. media are in this bizarre and impossible situation where you have this person in the White House doing these unusual things. And they feel compelled to cover it. At the same time, we don\u2019t think of this as a Trump effect; we really think this is broader than that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that the U.S. media reflect that the coronavirus pandemic has hit America harder than other English-language countries such as Australia and Canada? Sacerdote found that explanation wanting, pointing out that, with vaccines for example, the developments were the same across the world, and yet the U.S. coverage was far more negative.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n              \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n        media-object\n        type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          inline\n  article__inset\n        article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        renoImageFormat-\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:91.5625%;\" data-mobile-ratio=\"91.5625%\" data-layout-ratio=\"91.5625%\" data-subtype=\"\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=140&amp;size=1.0921501706484642 140w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=540&amp;size=1.0921501706484642 540w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=620&amp;size=1.0921501706484642 620w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=700&amp;size=1.0921501706484642 700w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=860&amp;size=1.0921501706484642 860w,\nhttps:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=1260&amp;size=1.0921501706484642 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px,\n(max-width: 540px) 500px,\n(max-width: 620px) 580px,\n(max-width: 700px) 660px,\n(max-width: 860px) 820px,\n1260px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=620&amp;size=1.0921501706484642\" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-263682?width=1260&amp;size=1.0921501706484642\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\" itemprop=\"caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>       \u201cI think this is a very negative topic in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, and it should be more negative in the U.S. because our case numbers and our death rate is worse. But there\u2019s these other indicators that still make it feel like we\u2019re out of whack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>MarketWatch wasn\u2019t included in the study, but he speculated that the financial media may have covered coronavirus better. \u201cThe stock market, where people are betting billions of dollars on how things are going to go in the economy, there\u2019s a lot of optimism around vaccines and getting this thing under control, and around getting some kind of stimulus passed,\u201d he said. \u201cThey appear to be much more optimistic than the U.S. major media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500<br \/>\n        SPX,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/210599714\/realtime\" class=\"positive\">+0.56%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       through Monday, has jumped 59% from its lows of March.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. media do one thing better than their international peers, however \u2014 they\u2019re more likely to mention the benefits of mask wearing and social distancing. The working paper isn\u2019t sure whether this prosocial message reflects a greater need for that messaging or not.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>Sacerdote also has studied the stock-market trading of U.S. senators. \u201cYou know, they do about as well as if you had a monkey throwing darts,\u201d he said. He\u2019s now studying data on the U.S. House of Representatives, and, no, they\u2019re not any better. \u201cAnd so what\u2019s unfortunate is how much time people are putting into this silly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, when obviously they have they have more important things that they could be doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the archives (March 2020):<\/strong>  Two senators under scrutiny over selling stock before the coronavirus market crash \u2014 but do insider-trading laws apply? <\/p>\n<p>He teaches his undergraduate students that markets are really efficient, so stock-market trading is not a good use of time. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how that message is evergreen, and there\u2019s always seems to be lots and lots of people who haven\u2019t absorbed that. And, you know, many of them are in the Congress.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>      <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author  hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Steve Goldstein\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Steve_Goldstein\"><\/span>Steve Goldstein<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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