Mass Media and Governor Candidates - Challenges of Neutrality and Trend of Alignments

Husnul Isa Harahap

2018

Abstract

Mass media is one of the main pillars of democracy. This is because the mass media is one of the channels to obtain political information. Interestingly, the mass media are always actively involved in the reporting of candidates who compete in the election. Thus, the phenomenon that can occur is the unequal amount of news from each candidate in the mass media. At the time of the general election, mass media in North Sumatra province also wrote information about the governor candidate. This study describes the state of the news distribution in terms of quantity. This study has found that there are variations in the reporting of governor candidates in terms of numbers. In some cases there is a phenomenon where the mass media only focus on one candidate. Meanwhile, other candidates are rarely reported. But this study does not want to prove whether the mass media has sided with one of the candidates or not.This study concludes that the trend of partisanship has emerged from the news of candidates that can be seen from the quantity. In the case of elections in northern Sumatra, the mass media selects its own news without considering the issue of neutrality.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Harahap H. (2018). Mass Media and Governor Candidates - Challenges of Neutrality and Trend of Alignments.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA, ISBN 978-989-758-393-3, pages 15-17. DOI: 10.5220/0008815900150017

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icocspa18,
author={Husnul Isa Harahap},
title={Mass Media and Governor Candidates - Challenges of Neutrality and Trend of Alignments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,},
year={2018},
pages={15-17},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008815900150017},
isbn={978-989-758-393-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,
TI - Mass Media and Governor Candidates - Challenges of Neutrality and Trend of Alignments
SN - 978-989-758-393-3
AU - Harahap H.
PY - 2018
SP - 15
EP - 17
DO - 10.5220/0008815900150017