Media Power Practices in Building a Frame of Economic and Political News During The Presidential Election Campaign of The Republic of Indonesia 2019

Abstract

. This study departs from a theoretical problem that the media must be free from all pressures and influences from both inside and outside parties in addition to serving the public interest. But the phenomenon is that there is still a strong influence of capital owners on media content. The inclusion of Republika's media leader, Erick Tohir, in the Presidential Candidate and Vice President No. 1 winning team in the 2019 Election, will have consequences for the process of producing news and the content it produces. This study aims to explore how the practice of power relations in building a frame in the production of news content and how the frame formed in the General Election of President and Vice President 2019-2024. The theory used is the theory of social reality construction, political economy economic theory, news production and framing theory. The framing method is used to examine the process of building a frame through interviews, observation, while to examine the news frame is used a text analyst that is the Entman model framing analysis. The results showed that in the process of building a news frame, the media crew claimed there was no intervention from the media owner who only explained his position, duties and functions as the head of the winning team for the Presidential Candidate and Vice President No. 1, while framing analysts' results show that Republika news frames in the economy illustrate positive performance which indirectly provides support to the candidate. From these it can be concluded that in the frame construction there has been a dominant hegemonic power relation that produces news frames that benefits the candidates.