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Item Data for: Politicizing the Pandemic? Partisan Framing of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic was Infrequent, Particularly in Local Newspapers.(2022-07-05) Myers, C. Daniel; cdmyers@umn.edu; Myers, C. Daniel; University of Minnesota Department of Political ScienceMedia scholars have long expressed concern that news outlets’ tendency to frame policy debates in terms of partisan conflict or political gamesmanship tends to politicize and polarize public opinion. This tendency may be particularly problematic with new, highly salient issues like the COVID-19 pandemic during its earliest stages. To evaluate the degree to which coverage of the pandemic in its first months was framed in partisan terms we analyze the content of COVID-19 related articles published on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and a random sample of local newspapers between February 21 and May 15, 2020.