An important aspect of the course of the pandemic and in particular of the degree of success of the vaccination campaign in each country is the role of the media and the way in which they manage the news regarding coronavirus.
This is because information definitely influences public opinion and individual decisions to some extent. An extremely interesting question arises, thus, about the quality characteristics of information in relation to the degree of its influence.
And it is at this point that research and scientifically documented approaches to communication issues become valuable. That is why the promotion of efforts such as the work of Andreas Tzovolos, on the quality of information in Greece is really valuable.
The question posed by the researcher is how scientific our information in Greece has been during the period of the pandemic, with four daily newspapers being studied.
The findings of the research, which are summarized in a relevant article on the website insidestory, record the “insufficient and declining participation of scientific discourse and scientific framework in the main topics and headlines” of the selected newspapers during the health crisis.
So, the absence of a scientific framework for communication around the pandemic seems to be well documented by research. The interpretation, however, of the consequences of this absence on the observed social behaviors remains a matter of perception.
