Stance Acts in Select Nigerian and South Korean News Report on COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The widespread of COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has been a subject of discourse in the media, with different media outlets striving to report issues of the pandemic to the general public since its outbreak. The question of media objectivity in portraying the pandemic has gained and will continue to receive scholarly attention. Hence, the objectivity of the print media in relaying the pandemic crisis in Nigeria and South Korea is called into question in this article which investigates stance acts in the reportage of COVID-19