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(Un)Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic: Framing Analysis of the Crisis in Canada

2020; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0008423920000372

1744-9324

William Poirier, Catherine Ouellet, Marc‐Antoine Rancourt, Justine Béchard, Yannick Dufresne,

Public Relations and Crisis Communication

The current COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented in recent history. On April 1, 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, warned that the world was facing the most challenging crisis since World War II (Associated Press, 2020). With the pandemic taking on an unprecedented magnitude in the twenty-first century, it quickly monopolized media attention. As of early April, Radar+'s large dataset showed that about 65 per cent of headlines on major Canadian media websites were related to the COVID-19 pandemic.