Discourse of Negative Content in Indonesia News Media

摘要

Communication technology revolution gives pressure to old media to make adaptation with the latest fast change. News is recently not under the domination of media as news producers because public themselves have been capable and acceptable as news producers. It results in revolutionary change in media content consumption in which news customers have a variety of media to enjoy and consume wherever and whenever they need it. The social media emergence has brought diversity and multiplied competition between mainstream media and new media. The growth of communication technology and new media has negative implication in communication system particularly the spread of media content with no control and journalistic codes. Social media become the field of "cyber war" for many people because there is no sensor and journalistic ethical codes which finally can trigger conflict in society. An "old media" which succeeds to change its form into new media without any loss of self-censorship and journalistic ethical codes is Tempo.co. This media becomes the representation on how to balance the news coverage in new media. In Indonesian social and politics context, many negative contents appeared in new media which were stimulated by the high intense of social and political condition in society.