Abstract
This study examined media bias, media ideologies and dominance in two newspaper articles on COVID 19 that were published by the American Washington Post newspaper and the Chinese People’s Daily newspaper. The study revealed that media bias is practiced through gatekeeping bias, coverage bias and statement bias. Ideology bias is practiced through the selection of topics to cover and the tone for reporting on these topics. Dominance is practiced through the foregrounding and backgrounding of information and ideas. This contrastive study also revealed that the topics that were foregrounded in American newspaper were backgrounded or filtered by the Chinese newspaper and the topics that were backgrounded by the American newspaper were foregrounded by the Chinese newspaper. This paper also revealed that foregrounding is not necessarily carried out explicitly; it can also be carried implicitly by foregrounding the opposite. This depends on readers’ interpretation and familiarity of events.
Highlights
Late in 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, a new infectious disease was identified
This contrastive study reveals that the topics that are foregrounded by the American newspaper are backgrounded or filtered by the Chinese newspaper and the topics that are backgrounded by the American newspaper are foregrounded by the Chinese newspaper
This article investigated media bias, ideologies and dominance in two newspaper articles that were published by the American Washington Post newspaper and the Chinese People’s Daily (English Edition) newspapers
Summary
Late in 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, a new infectious disease was identified. This infectious disease, which swiftly spread all over the world, was commonly named COVID 19. Eyes have turned to the prospect of a vaccine. Even though laboratories and medical institutions are assiduous to create a vaccine, their efforts are not abundantly successful. This, maybe out of frustration, led into a war of words and an exchange of blames. I will not suggest a vaccine, as I am not a medical specialist; I will analyze the war of words on Coronavirus in Chinese and American mass media texts
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