BIAS PEMBERITAAN MEDIA TENTANG PEJABAT PUBLIK

Abstract

This paper aimed to analyze bias of online mass media regarding alleged
ethics violation by public officers (speaker of House Representative). The
research done about 1 month, mid November till mid Desember 2015. In
that time, news about alleged ethics violation who involved the public
officer be headline news main stream of conventional mass media and
online mass media. The case was being tranding topic about 1 month in
cyber media. After that periods ending, as time goes by issue setting
agenda theory, mass media changed into chief region election issues. The
media online Merdeka.com and Suarakarya.id were research object with
considerated both media have different ideology and politics. Data
analysis done by using tool of analysis from Pan and Kosicki which
covered 4 structures are syntactic, script, thematic and rhetorical
structures. The result found that reality construction which Merdeka.com
dan Suarakarya.id constructed put Setya Novanto (SN) on position as
public officer who being objected by both media as a people who did
ethics violation and authority of incumbency violation, as high class
makelar, as speaker of House representative had disgrace Indonesian
and SN do not deserve to be role made for other officers. Because of
reporting process framing by both online media, its bring out bias of mass
media. The bias which brough out from “Papa minta saham” case more
dominated of bias by selection of sources and bias by placement. Both
media do news capture with refering to news sources with same their
ideology and politics. Both editorial do capture and placement news
unproportionally.
Keywords : framing, bias, reporting, online media, reality construction.