Tekanan pembentukan ruang publik pada realitas sosial berpotensi konflik di primetime news Metro TV

Democratization of the media, creating a public sphere into an opportunity and a bridge for community interaction, in order
to resolve social conflicts. However, because of the many interests involved, construction of social reality in the mass media
is often creating a negatif stereotype on certain groups that involved in the conflict. Moreover, when the conflict involves a
woman associated with the sex industry, which was placed as a social pathology. This research see how the factors in the
mass media supress the formation of public sphere in the event of the closing of localization “Dolly and Jarak” in Surabaya,
as a social reality which potentially conflict. Research uses Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis method, by
focusing on a second dimension, discourse practice. The results showed that presenter as individual media workers, media
routine, media organizations, and the extra media, influenced the construction of social reality in mass media. As a result, the
program talk show Primetime News is not neutral because mass media actors control the mass media by occupying accesses
to select a theme, information, and contributions.

Chory Angela Wijayanti Unknown Universitas Kristen Petra Indonesian eDIMENSI Journal Unknown Jurnal SCRIPTURA, Vol. 5, No. 2, DESEMBER 2015, 39-45; Chory Angela Wijayanti (10-008) Unknown

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