Is CNN biased?
Followed by the World Health Organization’s declaration of a public health emergency of international concern on 31st January 2020 (Beijing time), the COVID-19 pandemic has attracted intense global media attention.
This project is to explore the changing trends in news media coverage of COVID-19 throughout 2020-2021 and examine the biased media coverage.
Timeline
WHO authorizes China’s Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use
WHO team in Wuhan begin long-delayed coronavirus investigation after clearing quarantine
China suspends flights to and from the UK over new variant
US explores possibility that coronavirus spread started in Chinese lab, not a market
Almost 9 times more coronavirus cases were reported outside China than inside in the last 24 hours
Chinese doctor who sounded Wuhan virus alarm is critically ill, hospital says, after state media reported he had died
Chinese stocks plunged 8% as coronavirus fears took hold. It’s the worst day in years
World Health Organization declares coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern
Wuhan announces transportation lockdown
“The media play an active role in shaping and constructing controversy rather than just reporting it.”
-Allan Mazur
Meet Our Powerful
Map Visualization
Using map visualization to explore the distribution pattern of COVID-related news coverage by regions
Meet Our Powerful
Data Visualization
Explore the changing pattern of the amount of COVID-related news coverage over time based on scraped online published covid news reports from 2020/01 to 2021/07 from BBC & CNN
Introducing
Word cloud
Check out the keywords of media coverage of COVID-19 news based on 2019-2020 online news reports from BBC & CNN
The Aftermath
Online news was a significant part of the overall media coverage of the pandemic, yet, our results indicate a clear bias towards China in certain features of the CCN’s coverage, this partially triggered massive biased and misleading coverage presented via Western media channels against China in the past two years, impacting on the entire Chinese communities across the world.
