As the economy ground to a halt and unemployment soared, television news channels have focused the majority of their attention on the health impacts of the disease, while paying far less attention to the devastating economic harms, including historic job losses.
The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime on BBC News, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning "COVID-19" or "Coronavirus" or "Virus" since the start of this year, using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project.
Since April 3, GDELT has also analyzed the on-screen text of MSNBC, Fox News and BBC, allowing for a similar search of their on-screen health counts.
Fox News has occasionally run the CNN tracker by virtue of playing clips from CNN. And it has also displayed the native Johns Hopkins dashboard.
While CNN has the most mentions, BBC News comes in second, with Fox News and MSNBC nearly equal in third/fourth place.
Rather than a dedicated dashboard, BBC appears to communicate death counts primarily through brief unsourced updates in its chyron text at the bottom of the screen, such as "The death toll in the UK is now at 34,636" or "Number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths in the UK rises by 494 to 33,186," as seen below.
Fox News appears to primarily mention death counts in the scrolling text at the very bottom of the screen, as seen at the start of this clip.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/20/deaths_vs_economic_pain_cable_news_imbalanced_picture_143241.html
The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime on BBC News, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning "COVID-19" or "Coronavirus" or "Virus" since the start of this year, using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project.
Since April 3, GDELT has also analyzed the on-screen text of MSNBC, Fox News and BBC, allowing for a similar search of their on-screen health counts.
Fox News has occasionally run the CNN tracker by virtue of playing clips from CNN. And it has also displayed the native Johns Hopkins dashboard.
While CNN has the most mentions, BBC News comes in second, with Fox News and MSNBC nearly equal in third/fourth place.
Rather than a dedicated dashboard, BBC appears to communicate death counts primarily through brief unsourced updates in its chyron text at the bottom of the screen, such as "The death toll in the UK is now at 34,636" or "Number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths in the UK rises by 494 to 33,186," as seen below.
Fox News appears to primarily mention death counts in the scrolling text at the very bottom of the screen, as seen at the start of this clip.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/20/deaths_vs_economic_pain_cable_news_imbalanced_picture_143241.html
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