Open AccessAhok Dalam Berita Maya
Author(s) -
Novian Anata Putra
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jurnal penelitian komunikasi/jurnal penelitian komunikasi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2460-0172
pISSN - 1410-8291
DOI - 10.20422/jpk.v18i2.43
Subject(s) - islam , objectivity (philosophy) , advertising , political science , the internet , relevance (law) , balance (ability) , sociology , business , history , law , psychology , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , neuroscience , world wide web
Every society is flooded by Information in the Internet era. News sites as one of the sources of information are now numerous. However, do these bits of information worth to be trusted fully? Through quantitative content analysis, the researcher tried to examine one of the news sites based on religion (Islamic hardliners), VOA-Islam, in reporting Basuki Tjahaja Purnama a.k.a Ahok, which incidentally is a non-Muslim Chinese descent. Using Jurgen Westerstahl’s objectivity approach (1983), found the fact that the news presented by VOA-Islam does not contain elements of balance, even most of it shows a negative tendency, cornered Ahok as a central figure in DKI Jakarta. In fact, from the dimensions of relevance, the percentage of news from VOA-Islam, which has a significant effect to the activity of community life and proximity to the topic of the public, are quite high. In addition to the large amount of news that contains racial issues, it becomes worrisome because it could lead to the disintegration of the nation.