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Drawing on the tenets of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), this paper presents a discourse analysis of UK news coverage regarding the phenomenon commonly referred to as "pet regret". This is an informal expression coined by mainstream media to indicate feelings of remorse experienced by individuals who acquired a companion animal during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently found themselves questioning their decision, leading some to consider relinquish or leaving without care their pet. This paper will discuss examples from newspapers that used a moralistic framework to depict pet owners by resorting to forms of value judgments woven into rhetorical and syntactic structures. The tone of these judgments reinforces a type of representation grounded on binary thinking, potentially encouraging classifications of people based on reductive notions of right and wrong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the New Poor Law was passed in [23] I The Times i commented the event as: 'The most flagrant example of injustice in the history of the British legislature' ( I The Times i , [23]: 2). Notable examples are the cases of Timothy Daly and Richard Gibson, two workhouse inmates in London, whose deaths from bedsores caused great sensation in the 1860s. The readers of I The Times i might have been relatively familiar with the term "bedsore" because it had already occurred in other bedsore-related inquests conducted years earlier by the founder of I The Lancet i , Thomas Wakley. Government involvement followed when Poor Law Board medical officer [17] wrote a report about the existing arrangements of the infirmary wards and workhouses in London. [Extracted from the article]

This article draws on studies that explore forms of contemporary journalism which focus on the role played by the expression of emotions and feelings. We present results from a qualitative study which examined how British tabloid newspapers covered acid attacks on women between 2010 and 2016. Drawing on the notion of affect, we explore the extent to which journalists try to turn painful embodied states into rational discourse. The data analysed suggest that such experiences cannot be completely captured by language. The journalists make use of particular narrative strategies focusing on the incident of the attack by highlighting how pain was experienced by the individual. This often results in the women being singled out and isolated. While there is some discussion of the contexts in which the violence occurred, the wider socio-cultural background is absent from the articles. We conclude that the focus on intense pain in the articles may enable a particular affective relationality to emerge that is felt by victims, journalists and audiences alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]