The Qatar 2022 World Cup Controversy in CNN Indonesia's News Frames

Abstract

The football World Cup in Qatar generated different reactions from different audiences in Indonesia. This research aims to examine the direction of online media framing in Indonesia related to the event by taking the issue on CNN Indonesia online media. The research method uses William A. Gamson's analysis method, which includes various framing devices and argumentation devices, to analyse the direction of CNN Indonesia's framing in covering the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. This paper is classified as descriptive qualitative, which is to find out the views of CNN Indonesia factually and accurately. The object of research on the World Cup in Qatar takes several news on CNN Indonesia within a period of two months to be analysed. The results showed that CNN Indonesia in reporting the 2022 World Cup has a perspective that is more inclined to use metaphor elements in framing devices to package interpretations of various events related to the 2022 World Cup and often uses elements of appeals to principles in reasoning devices.