A News Framing of Campaign Declaration President and Vice President Jokowi - Makruf and Prabowo-Sandy Presidential Election 2019 at kompas.com and republika.com

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to see the tendency of reporting in the mass media, about the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2019-2024 Period, Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin and Prabowo Subianto -Sandiaga Uno. The researcher chosed digital mass media, kompas.com and republica.com as the subject of this study. The reason for choosing republika.com digital mass media is media ownership. The President Commissioner of PT Mahaka Media Tbk, the legal entity that houses republica.com, is Erick Thohir who is the Chairperson of Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin TKN ( National Winning Team). That condition is published an assumption that Erick Tohir accessed to influence editorial policies, related to the reporting of the 2019 presidential election. For the kompas.com digital media, it was chosen because that corporate has always been considered professional and independent. Kompas' daily ( the up line of kompas.com ) track record gives a strong indication of how the national media truly presents an impartial press in its reporting. This study uses framing analysis of Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki models. The results showed that both online media republica.com and kompas.com quantitatively contained more news for candidate number 01 (Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin), than candidate number 02 (Prabowo-Sandiaga). Whereas qualitatively, both online media still contained neutral or impartial content and did not tend to one of candidates pair.