Comparation and Sentiment Analysis Method of Chinese and Western Media's COVID-19 Reports on Various Countries

ABSTRACT

Media plays an important role in the information society and therefore, it should be fair, just, and objective. Media has been influencing the public's cognition of COVID-19 and their views of the actions taken by the government of different countries in 2020. After analyzing more than 260 thousand reports collected from search engines and published by both the Chinese and Western media about 10 countries, we found that Western media has prejudice when reporting the epidemic in China, and there exist obvious abnormal features when they reporting the epidemic in the United States. In addition, compared to Western media, Chinese media are more consistent and objective with the actual development of the epidemic in different countries. © 2022, Science Press. All right reserved.