Media policy on the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues at full capacity for more than part of the year in July, appears to have been hit. There are indications that other people are tired of the nutrition of coronavirus stories.
Around the world, in other languages, the media continues to play the pandemic. Major newspapers and audiovisual media, as well as social media, continue to highlight news on COVID-19 as infections and deaths increase.
Urgent messages: Other people are in poor health and die. Wear masks, wash your hands, keep a social distance and avoid crowds, in a different way the virus will catch you.
However, the pandemic continues to increase. The number of infections and deaths continues to increase from one country to another, from South Africa to South America. At the time of writing on July 29, 2020, the following countries were the most sensitive on the LIST of COVID-19 Infections: Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Science and Systems Engineering
I can say that the pandemic is now worsening in the United States and the rest of Asia compared to its arrival in the United States six months ago from China. But do other people pay attention to the recommendations of fitness experts? Do they respond to messages? But why does the pandemic continue?
Are other people tired of hearing the same messages day after day? Are you paralyzed by worry and overinformation? Is news fatigue taking hold? We have asked some experts for your opinion.
The first user I approached came back with a line that left me hallucinated: “Sorry, I have some kind of information-related fatigue, period. I’m not worried about that exercise anymore. Good luck with your research.” There will be a trace of inflammation and depression in your response. The interviewee, Asian sociologist and professor emeritus of communication, prefers to remain anonymous.
What about the others? Do you think other people are losing interest now and tired of reading and hearing the news about the pandemic? Random responses from some experts:
1. No. In the United States, others don’t get tired of hearing the same message. It’s just that they’re confused. John Lent, retired American professor of mass communication.
2. Yes. Tired, but data is very important to you and your family. Then, like it or not, you have to pay attention to it. Syed Arabi Bin Syed, professor of communication in Malaysia.
3. No. People realize that it is mandatory to be up to date. However, they have become more anxious. Ramon Tuazon, Asian consultant at UNESCO.
My feeling is that we haven’t gotten there yet, but we’re close to the existing coVID-19 fatigue, as the pandemic continues to get worse. The tiredness of the news is not new. Bad news makes other people feel depressed and powerless: the audience feels they can’t influence events, so they reject them.
This concept has been discussed in the media before and at the Nieman Foundation, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and WHO since March, when the COVID-19 news phenomenon erupted.
And if news fatigue increases, what does this interest in virus communication methods mean? This means a desire to reshape our methods to combat fatigue.
The pandemic is aggravated because there is no coherent policy to combat it. There are conflicting criticisms, one from scientists and one from politicians, such as Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. These high-level politicians have undermined the credibility of their scientists. So other people are confused.
The other explanation for why this setback in terms of the pandemic in the United States is the independence of the minds of Americans who value their individual freedoms. They refuse to pay attention to the recommendation that they wear masks, to approach the crowds, to keep a social distance, to wash their hands. It’s none of your business, they say.
So how can we break the public’s resistance to the qualified recommendation on a pandemic? The answer: pay attention to scientists and speak with one voice. Use coertion as the last hotel if necessary. Some U.S. countries and states Now they demand the use of masks.
Democratic Western countries led by the United States can be informed to one or two painful classes about speaking in a single voice of authoritarian China where their anti-COVID-19 crusade succeeds. Peixin Cao, professor and vice-dean of the School of Journalism at China’s University of Communication, Beijing, told SciDev.Net:
The government has adopted a new logo cross measure (copied from the West) that had never been implemented before (in China), namely (surprise, surprise!) Periodic press conferences. The ultimate effective strategy is to disseminate data through state media. My is that (in China) other people simply stick to the government’s recommendation, voluntarily or not. “
To which a reporter from Wuhan, Zhu Ling, adds in another interview with SciDev.Net. “The main explanation for why the PCCh (Chinese Communist Party) communication strategy on COVID-19 may simply be that all media will have to stick to central ideology.”
Meanwhile, Poynter Report advises media not to avoid covering COVID-19 even if other people are getting tired of it. The fatigue of the news about coronavirus would possibly prevail, but it is more than ever for the hounds to publish this news until the pandemic is triggered. It doesn’t matter how much we have to deal with that until the end.
It’s easier said than done, of course, we have to.
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