The Plenty Paradox of the Failure of the Mass Media Paradigm in Indonesia

Fajar Dwi Putra, Andi Alimuddin Unde, Hafied Cangara, Andi Muhammad Sofyan

Abstract


The purpose of this study is to provide a general description of the massive failure of the mass media paradigm in Indonesia and awaken mass media owners to return to the right path because the shift in the primary meaning of mass media in Indonesia has gone too far, apart from the shield of the Press Law number 40 of 1999 and the Broadcasting Law of 2002. This research uses qualitative methods with an intrinsic analytic case study approach and a critical paradigm so that several forms of critical arguments can be raised about how the absurdity of mass media forms.  The results showed that supervision at the national level was not functioning properly, this was measured by the declining quality of information and the increasing number of ethical violations committed by mass media in Indonesia. The mass media in Indonesia has a widespread lack of knowledge, political escalation is the reason why the health of the mass media has unclear consequences. This situational exposure explains the existence of hidden and subclinical stages of information ethics. Judging from its development to date, mass media in Indonesia has experienced severe deficiencies, and a lack of methods so that the graph of moral defects of information shot so high. Ironically, this condition is not detected by modern means. Conclusion; The mass media in Indonesia experiences moral decadence, changes in the status of axiology make ethical aspects blurred,  laws are not adapted and symptoms are not easily detected.


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