Media attention to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria – a reflection on news media coverage of humanitarian crises
The earthquake of the latest 6th of February was the “greatest tragedy since 1939” in Turkey and led Syria to a situation “worse than the war” that the country has endured for more than a decade, according to a piece’s title of Diário de Notícias newspaper[1]. Nevertheless, in a search on its website for the terms ‘earthquake’, ‘Turkey’ and ‘Syria’, the results presented only go until the fourth page. The...