Ketidakadilan dalam Informasi Kriminal (Wacana Pembandingan Aktor Berita Kriminal di Headline Surat Kabar Koran Merapi)
Abstract: Headline, the main
news in the front of page of a newspaper, is a strategic place to convey
information. Of course, headline in yellow journalism ought to be attractive
with bombastic content’s characteristic and sometimes it shows off sensuality.
Koran Merapi is one of newspaper which has the positioning as a law and
criminal newspaper. In other side, Criminal reality always shows some
characters such as: suspect, police and victim. Based on constructivism ideas,
mass media will always construct reality to be published in media. It means
that reality in media will re-construct those characters. The research question
is formulated as follows: how is the criminal actor constructed by Koran
Merapi? Using critical approach through discourse analysis, the research will
investigate the basic idea of occurring construction. Van Leeuwen’s models for
the text analysis and Norman Fairclough’s for the context are used to explore
actor and marginalization in criminal news. The police are depicted as somebody
who is admirable and acts as the superhero. The suspects are depicted as a
strong person before the victim but weak before the police. The victims are the
characters who are always threatened by crimes, are not able to overcome it
without any help from the hero.
Key words: discourse analysis,
yellow journalism, headline, crime news
Penulis: Anwar Riksono Dian
Nugroho
Kode Jurnal: jpkomunikasidd080010
