What is it about?

This study sets out to comprehensively examine how four major TV global news providers – CNN, BBC, DW and RT – have covered the COVID-19 pandemic from outbreak to mid-crisis.

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Why is it important?

It sheds light on how collective compassion and action are distance-adjusted and how proximization generally operates in TV news discourse.

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This page is a summary of: Proximal versus distant suffering in TV news discourses on COVID-19 pandemic, Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, December 2021, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0083.
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