News Coverage of Romahurmuzy Arrest: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Three National Online Media

DOI

10.2991/soshec-19.2019.68How to use a DOI?

Keywords

news coverage; corruption; on-line media; framing analysis; media position

Abstract

Romahurmuziy, Chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) was arrested during a sting operation (Operasi Tangkap Tangan/OTT) on March 15, 2019 by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Surabaya. He is suspected of committing corruption in form of bribery in buying and selling position at the local level. This event shocked the public because Romy (as his nickname) was known as an influential politician and had a very close position to power. On the day of the incident, online media massively covered the news. This research uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) through Robert N. Entman version of Framing Analysis approach. Data was collected from three news sources from three national online media (republika.co.id, kompas.com and vivanews.co.id). The central questions of the study are: What is the process of news selection and high-lighting on certain aspects of the news in each media? Secondly, what position was chosen based on the reporting of Romahurmuziy case regarding the current corruption eradication agenda in Indonesia? The main finding of the research is that vivanews.com tends to aggressively attack Romy through his reporting. Meanwhile, republika.co.id tries to reveal the other side of the topic of the news, while kompas.com is objective enough to cover this case by the news.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mohammad Isa Gautama
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TI  - News Coverage of Romahurmuzy Arrest: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Three National Online Media
BT  - Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and  Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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