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Analisis Isi Berita Politik Jelang Pemilihan Presiden Republik Indonesia Tahun 2019 Pada Surat Kabar Dumai Pos
The political economy of media is a theory that focuses on the relationship between economic structure and the dynamics of the media industry and ideological content of the media (McQuail, 2011: 105). Seeing this, media institutions are part of the economic system with close links to the political system. Barant (2011: 250) calls it the theory of political economy in the media focused on the use of social elites over economic power to exploit media institutions. The emergence of political news before the General Election (Election) is very influential on political decision making. Towards the Indonesian Presidential Election Day 2019-2024, various media in the country covered continuously related to this, including Dumai Pos. So researchers are interested in analyzing the content of political news ahead of the 2019 Presidential Election published in the Dumai Pos newspaper to find out what the contents of the political news ahead of the 2019 presidential and vice presidential elections. This study aims to determine the number and percentage of political news about 2 presidential candidates ahead of the 2019 Indonesian presidential election in the Dumai Pos newspaper based on the unit of analysis.
This research uses quantitative content analysis method with descriptive approach. This research is not intended to test a particular hypothesis or measure a variable, but merely describe the content in a story. The news samples examined were 24 news stories from Dumai Pos, March 24-April 13, 2019 edition.
From the three news categories it can be concluded that in the Dumai Pos newspaper edition of March 24-April 13 2019 more present the Prabowo-Sandi couple by 50% with 91.67% positive news and 8.3% negative news. While the Jokowi-Amin couple's news was 41.67% with 60% positive news and 40% negative news. The more coverage of candidate 02 by Dumai Pos is inseparable from the interests of the political economy. The media put the audience, namely supporters of Prabowo-Sandi in Dumai City as a market because based on the results of calculations for the Prabowo-Sandi pair got the most votes, 92,373 votes.
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