This week we delved further into the concept of framing within the media and how it affects opinion and moral. I couldn’t help but reflect upon the media, including social, at the moment and how it is littered with fake news and theories across the board due to the current COVID-19 Pandemic. My content this week reflects on media headlines, tweets and images that have surfaced and become popular over the past few weeks in the format of a starter pack.

Personally, for every informative story I find regarding this current state, I find two bogus ones. It’s humous that media sources find it necessary to make fake news salient rather than just providing the appropriate information considering the severity of the situation. However maybe the frame of COVID-19 in the media is to spark fear to keep people watching, reading and theorising.

Nevertheless, always question the motives of a frame, even when dealing with something as severe as a pandemic.

~Bree