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TEIXIDO, Cristian Merola  y  PERCASTRE-MENDIZABAL, Salvador. Covid-19 in the spanish press before the pandemic: El País and El Mundo. anagramas rumbos sentidos comun. [online]. 2024, vol.22, n.44, e5.  Epub 05-Mar-2024. ISSN 1692-2522.  https://doi.org/10.22395/angr.v22n44a05.

This research has three objectives focused on finding out, prior to the State of Alarm in Spain derived from Covid-19: (1) the treatment of the news about Covid-19 in terms of messages, either alarm or tranquillity in the online versions of the newspapers El País and El Mundo; (2) to investigate about the headlines on the cover page, the total news and news about politics and about Covid-19; and (3) to know what type of news about Covid-19 has received treatment by both media to a greater or lesser extent. The analysis period begins on February 1 of 2020 and ends on March 14 of the same year. The research has a quantitative approach based on a qualitative immersion model through which three registration cards have been created to help to establish the results.

After applying the data collection instrument, the results that were obtained indicate that alarm messages have predominated in both newspapers. In addition, the results indicate a predominance of the headlines about Covid-19 on the cover by the newspaper El País, which contrasts with the greater number of news about Covid-19 shown in El Mundo. In relation to the thematics about Covid-19, a dominance of the news about the progress of the virus and about international news has been observed in both media. In short, this investigation has revealed how Covid-19 has been considered a minor illness in both newspapers, since it has been classified as flu, pneumonia or mild catarrhal symptoms.

Palabras clave : press; news; mass media; communication; journalism; pandemics; contagious diseases.

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