The state protects us. Framing Covid-19 in Spanish television news programmes
Abstract
The Observatory for the Quality of Information on Television (OCITV) analyses television news programmes from the five main channels. Coinciding with the first weeks of Covid-19 in Spain, it included amongst its analysis parameters a study of framing. This analysis takes into account content from different briefings and press releases during the first weeks following the state of alarm, as well as 812 pieces of 17 news programmes. “The state protects us” is the dominant framing both in institutional briefings and news programmes. The news programmes share with the institutional briefings the call to unity and confidence in the public services, but they also offer other narratives that represent the harder and more negative elements of the pandemic. Overall, a mildly negative framing.
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