Corona, the Lockdown and the Media : De Gruyter : 9783110765205 : 3110765209 : 29 Jan 2024 : In a pilot study, Bernhagen and Kybelka used supervised machine learning to retrieve and classify news reporting in France, Germany and the UK on the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. To analyze the framing in the media reports, they distinguish a human impact frame from an economic consequences frame. The first focuses primarily on the direct personal consequences of the pandemic, such as severe symptoms and loss of life. The second frame draws attention to the economic fallout of both the pandemic and the public policy measures implemented to contain it. The authors test the model empirically using data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and data from British, French, and German newspaper articles on the pandemic. A comparison of the distribution of the frames between the three countries has shown, firstly, that the human impact frame is dominant in all three countries,