MASS MEDIA AND NEW DIRECTIONS FOR PRO-POPULISM JOURNALISM: JAWA POS DAILY SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION STUDY IN COVERAGE OF REJECTION OF THE 2019 KPK LAW REVISION

Abstract

This research examines how the Jawa Pos Daily's social construction in the coverage of protests carried out by the masses before enacting the 2019 KPK Law Revision. As a content analysis research, the data used is the Java Pos news and variations in response to it using a theoretical perspective of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman's social constructions. This study is an interdisciplinary study that brings together the phenomenon of media communication with sociological theory. This research can that the externalization process, which shows the Jawa Pos Daily uses the diction rejection of the KPK Law Revision in its reporting. The objective process is by presenting the news in interaction masses or the public and the mass media. In contrast, internalization involves placing the masses' understanding and actions as the same and correct action following both' wishes