Abstract
The Corona virus or also known as COVID-19 has raged the world with a devastating number of lives that were lost. During the lockdown and in the times of chaos, many have relied on the media for information to keep abreast with the updates of this angry virus. The objective of this study was to find out the differences of news coverage concerning the Covid-19 pandemic between mainstream and alternative media in New York City, where it hit the worst. The New York Times and Vice News were chosen to represent the mainstream and alternative news stations, respectively. The methodology used was a qualitative content analysis to organize, extract and understand the large data sets and derive conclusions. Conclusively, this analysis is based on four criteria’s: headlines, sources, language, and visual images. A summary of the headline regarding the alternative resultantly informs us that Vice incorporates a majority of vague, misleading titles while contrastingly, the New York Times incorporates accurate and informative titles. Dissimilarities also occur with sources where a majority of citations are composed of sole informants for Vice News and multiple sources for the New York Times; authoritative and non-authoritative.
Highlights
Media plays a role by giving information to the public
A summary of the headline regarding the alternative resultantly informs us that Vice incorporates a majority of vague, misleading titles while contrastingly, the New York Times incorporates accurate and informative titles
The objective of this study is to find the differences of news coverage concerning the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City between mainstream and alternative media
Summary
Mainstream media is everywhere, and publishes news through television, newspapers and the internet in the form of online publications (LaMarco, 2018). Alternative media is referred to as ―underground‖ press publications, which include newspapers, newsletters and other types of serial publications (LaMarco, 2018). This media is known for its publishing on an acknowledged political viewpoint in a liberal and conservative manner. The patient went to a hospital in New York City to get evaluated (Goldstein and McKinley, 2020) and the test revealed that the patient had SARS-CoV-2, but she had already taken several precautionary measures on returning home. Governor Cuomo closed all non-essential services, and with the help of the Federal Emergency Management Center, transformed Manhattan‘s Javits Center into an emergency medical station with 2,910 beds (Myers Meghann, 2020)
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