Innledning
The coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, Hubei China is according to the “World Health Organization, WHO” declared as a world health emergency and has currently taken over two thousand lives in China.
The outbreak started on 31. December and has since then gained a lot of attention from big media outlets in various countries.
News stories about another worldwide health emergency that have included deluding reports and over-exaggerated news coverages, the global media has battled to understand the new strain of coronavirus, being both heavily reported and censured by many media specialists.
Traditionally the media is supposed to serve a fourth power role in our society as even media is mostly known as the “fourth estate”.
The media should enforce truthful articles and serve as a mass communication method between both communities and government leaders.
Utdrag
Newspaper Le Courrier Picard distributed a story on the coronavirus outbreak with the feature "The Yellow Peril". The news source has been heavily attacked on Twitter for "uninhibited prejudice" and racism.
French Le Courrier Picard later apologized in a note, saying the article was intended to be a commentary that conveyed a question mark.
Numerous other articles such as the article in the popular german news outlet “Der Spiegel” has contained many controversial topics and themes.
Der Spiegel news magazine’s cover included the topic “Coronavirus - Made in China”. (Global Times, 2020)
Other media specialists in the U.S. has had an increasingly reasonable tone with the coronavirus.
Non-controversial news sources such as The Washington Post are effectively addressing other articles that tend to misinform the public and therefore they critique sources that are extremely linked to xenophobic action.
However, covering one-sided reports can likewise have unfriendly outcomes. Social media, on the other hand, is a powerful form of media and hashtags are a part of the big social media community.
One of the first doctors assigned to treat patients with coronavirus dies and triggers a wave of grief and injustice of the freedom of speech among many Chinese and foreign social media users.
A hashtag created on social media around the world stating “#IWantFreedomOfSpeech” begins a social media battle where many posts of so-called virus whistleblowers are being censored for spreading false and illegal information.
The information containing different reasons why the virus evolved and what kind of situation China is currently in.
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