Peran Media Massa Dalam Komikasi Politik

The existence of mass media in the context of political communication has an important role. It.is in accordance with the process of the authoritative political tranformation to the reformation era which undoubtedly the expression freedom to be a basic of the formation of democratic citizen life. Mass media has an important role in delivering tje political message to the public significantly, because the mass media has some advantages such as mass media has a broad range to the public and directly also immediately affects to the message receiver. In addition, the mass media indeed cannot determine what to think, but affect what to think about. By choosing certain news and ignore others, media forms our world image as the media presents. Therefore, it is reasonable if the mass media involvement in the developing of certain political and democracy system is very crucial.