Masalah-Masalah Moral Masyarakat di Surat Kabar: Studi Kasus terhadap Halaman “Kasus” di Surat Kabar Harian Kedaulatan Rakyat
Abstract: Information
delivered by the media makes the people to communicate each other focus on that
information. In the long run, communication about the same object between the
people will construct a certain community characterized by the ideology of the
media. In this sense, communication media plays its role constructing a
community. Besides, communication media can also present the social reality
only. It does not build a community, but just portraits it. Newspaper can build
a certain community with information published in it. But it can just portrait
the social reality of its readers. Kedaulatan Rakyat, the oldest newspaper in
Indonesia, of course plays the functions above. It builds a community of the
readers or just portraits the social reality of society. This paper describes
moral problems of the people portrayed by Kedaulatan Rakyat especially its
“Kasus” page. Economic moral cases stays in the first rank among others. The
age of 26 up to 45 years’ invidious is critical ages for doing immoral acts.
Key words: economic moral
cases, portrait of reality, Catholic
Penulis: Y. Agus Tridiatno
Kode Jurnal: jpkomunikasidd060004
