Data for: Politicizing the Pandemic? Partisan Framing of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic was Infrequent, Particularly in Local Newspapers.
2022-07-05
Loading...
Persistent link to this item
Statistics
View StatisticsKeywords
Collection period
2020-02-21
202-05-15
202-05-15
Date completed
Date updated
Time period coverage
Geographic coverage
Source information
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Title
Data for: Politicizing the Pandemic? Partisan Framing of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic was Infrequent, Particularly in Local Newspapers.
Published Date
2022-07-05
Authors
Author Contact
Myers, C. Daniel
cdmyers@umn.edu
cdmyers@umn.edu
Type
Dataset
Observational Data
Observational Data
Abstract
Media 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.
Description
In both datasets, each observation is a newspaper article published on the front page of one of the national or local newspapers. Description of variables is in the PoliticsOrPublicHealthCodebookReplication.pdf document. The three "COVID Concern from Civiqs" files recording the estimated percentage of Democrats and Republicans who expressed various levels of concern about the pandemic on each date from February 25, 2020 until June 14, 2020, as well as the partisan gap in the percent expressing extreme or moderate concern. See ReadMe.txt file for more information.
Referenced by
Myers, C. Daniel. Forthcoming. “Politicizing the Pandemic? Partisan Framing of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic was Infrequent, Particularly in Local Newspapers.” Political Communication.
Related to
Replaces
item.page.isreplacedby
Publisher
Collections
Funding information
item.page.sponsorshipfunderid
item.page.sponsorshipfundingagency
item.page.sponsorshipgrant
Previously Published Citation
Other identifiers
Suggested citation
Myers, C. Daniel. (2022). Data for: Politicizing the Pandemic? Partisan Framing of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic was Infrequent, Particularly in Local Newspapers.. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/wsmw-jp95.
View/Download File
File View/Open
Description
Size
PoliticsOrPublicHealthCodebookReplication.pdf
Codebook for newspaper datasets
(117.84 KB)
ReadMe.txt
Readme documentation file
(3.23 KB)
PoliticsOrPublicHealthAnalysisForReplication.R
R replication script
(14.9 KB)
COVID Concern from Civiqs - Concern Gap ForReplication.csv
Civiqs COVID Concern Gap data
(1.51 KB)
COVID Concern from Civiqs - Democrats ForReplication.csv
Civiqs COVID Concern Democrat data
(2.7 KB)
COVID Concern from Civiqs - Republicans ForReplication.csv
Civiqs COVID Concern Republicans data
(2.78 KB)
covidLocalNewsCoverageCombinedForReplication05062024.csv
Data from local newspapers
(62.26 KB)
covidNationalNewsCoverageCombinedForReplication04292024.csv
Data from national newspapers
(64.02 KB)
Content distributed via the University Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. By using these files, users agree to the Terms of Use. Materials in the UDC may contain content that is disturbing and/or harmful. For more information, please see our statement on harmful content in digital repositories.