ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS PEMBERITAAN KEKERASAN BERBASIS GENDER DI SURAT KABAR HARIAN SUARA MERDEKA
Abstract: Instead of giving
empathy to the victims, newspapers tended to wrongly illustrate the violence as
such that they were likely placing women in disgrace. The media described the
women as the object of sexual fantasy, harassment, and violence. The problem
was how the media presented the violence in their news. There seemed no empathy
to the victims of violence against women. Such paradigm brought the victims
into a symbolic violence. A critical discrouse analysis was necessary to fi nd
out textual aspects, production, consumption, and socio-cultural contexts of
gender-based violence news on a newspaper, like what this study had performed
to Suara Merdeka daily. Using a qualitative descriptive technique with critical
perspective, this study analyzed the qualitative data according to Norman
Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis. Having explored texts presented on
the news on Suara Merdeka daily, the study found a gender bias. This study
suggested that most journalists in Suara Merdeka hardly found opportunities to
attend gender-related workshops, so that the news output they produced did not
cover both side of story. Instead, the news presented were likely having a
mindset that all the readers were males. Suara Merdeka had unfairly informed
the news of the violence against women, placing them as the object who suffered
by implicitly showing the superiority of men over them. Such mischief could
have had been avoided had Suara Merdeka already performed in-depth training and
knowledge improvement to the journalists in such that they became aware of
women’s position in the gender-based violence.
Keywords: news, text,
production, consumption, socio-cultural, gender
Penulis: Yuliyanto Budi
Setiawan
Kode Jurnal: jpkomunikasidd110013
