Media framing of the Corona pandemic in Algeria between sensitization and intimidation A comparative analytical study between "Al-Nahar Online" and "Le Matin D’algerie"

Abstract

The Corona pandemic affected the performance of the media, which initially tried to provide humanitarian media coverage of all developments in the spread of the virus in the world and warned against it, and this was the same scene in the Algerian media arena, where press websites provided sensory coverage about the epidemic and ways to prevent it. But after a period of time, the frameworks on these sites varied in a way that serves their agendas and interests, and although the situation is not appropriate to compete over the scoop, some of them created tension about the numbers presented by them that increased the horror of the scene and some of them politicized the emergence of the epidemic, which is what made us in this study try to understand How do Algerian electronic newspapers' websites frame the Corona pandemic, and did the media frameworks adopted by these websites support the purpose of intimidation or the goal of sensitization?