Based on the 10.9K articles from top 40 news providers of South Korea, this paper analyzed the media framing of Itaewon Halloween Crowd Crush during the first 72 hours after the incident. By adopting word-vector embedding and clustering, we figured out that conservative media focused on political parties' responses and the suspect's identity while the liberal media covered the responsibility of the government and possible unequal spillover effect on the low-income industry workers. Although the social tragedy was not directly connected to institutional politics, the media clearly exhibited political bias in the coverage process.
翻译:基于韩国前40家新闻媒体提供的10.9K篇报道,本文分析了梨泰院万圣节踩踏事件发生后最初72小时内的媒体框架。通过采用词向量嵌入和聚类方法,我们发现保守派媒体聚焦于政党的回应及嫌疑人身份,而自由派媒体则关注政府责任及可能对低收入行业工人产生的不平等溢出效应。尽管这场社会悲剧与制度性政治无直接关联,但媒体在报道过程中明显表现出政治偏见。