Political News in the National Online Media (Qualitative Content Analysis of the Presidential Elections in Indonesia 2018-2019)
Didik Haryadi Santoso (a), Pawito (b)Prahastiwi Utari (b) Drajat Tri Kartono
a) Doctoral Student in Department of Communication Science, Universitas Sebelas Maret
b) Department of Communication Science, Universitas Sebelas Maret
Abstract
Online media inevitably involved in 2019 Indonesian Presidency-s Election. However, online media-s ethical issue also emerge onto the surface. Particularly, the issues of online journalism ethics. This research explore the ethical issue in political news in national online media during the 2019 Presidential Election. Qualitative method is employed to analyze news in national online media by 2018-2019. A sort of national online media are chosen based on their rank in accordance to Weber Shandwick and alexa.com; namely, kompas.com, sindonews.com and tempo.co. This research has revealed that those online outlets have several ethical issues of political news: (1) The news source, some of websites have mentioned no news source or any credible reference. (2)The news content, had bias distinction between fact and opinion. (3)The news accuracy, such the problem of proportionality and objectivity. And (4) Affilliation, in related to its inclination to a particular presidential candidate. Keywords: Disruption, Online Media, Politics, News.
Keywords: Disruption, Online Media, Politics, News, Journalistic Ethics.
Topic: International Symposium on Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Religious Studies