Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 5, 2020

Kalev Leetaru, RCP: Pandemic to Protests: Coverage Shifted But Outlooks Didn’t

After three months of wall-to-wall television coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost overnight the live infection dashboards and often-uttered phrases like “social distancing” have all but disappeared, replaced with images of a nation in racial turmoil. How are the major cable news channels covering the protests and what do their different narratives teach us about how the media frames national events? The data provide some clues.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 5, 2020

Joe Biden Is Heading for a Blowout Victory in November -- Lanny Davis, The Hill

A Very Real Silent Majority Will Reelect Trump -- David Catron, The American Spectator

China will crush dissent in Hong Kong, just as it did in Tiananmen Square -- Ma Jian, The Guardian

George Floyd death: China takes a victory lap over US protests -- Zhaoyin Feng, BBC

How Russia benefits from America's crisis -- Janusz Bugajski, The Hill

The risks of staying in Afghanistan far outweigh the risk of withdrawal -- Daniel L. Davis, The Hill

Malaysia cautious over US role in disputed South China Sea -- Ngeow Chow-Bing, SCMP

Brexit deadlock: What happens next? -- Barbara Moens and Cristina Gallardo, Politico

Decoding Russia’s Official Nuclear Deterrence Paper -- Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center

Why South Korea Wants to Join Donald Trump's G-11 Idea -- Daniel R. DePetris, National Interest

Will Moscow save the West Bank from annexation? -- Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor

Understanding the Iran-Venezuela Relationship -- Rendon & De La Cruz, CSIS

Investigative Issues: Here's an Excerpt From My Covid E-Book That Was Quarantined by Amazon -- Alex Berenson, Real Clear Investigations

Latin American countries face uphill battle against Covid-19 pandemic -- Romain Houeix, France 24

Factbox: What the WHO recommends on face masks -- Reuters