“Covid-19 has been particularly disastrous for the United States, the United Kingdom and Southeast Asian nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
“These countries have experienced extraordinarily high case numbers and deaths, hospitals full and turning away patients, government lockdowns, and morgues and cemeteries needing more space for the deceased.”
But instead of a global view of the unfurling disaster, most Australian media focussed on the US and UK experience.
Ross Tapsell undertook a survey of Australian coverage for the Australian Journalism Review.
Writing in the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, he analyzes what he calls the ‘western centric’ framing of the issues involved.
The Australian mainstream media’s reporting of Covid-19 clearly does not reflect (our current) diversity.
Ross Tapsell
Aussie Arts & Letters 
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