The Form of Reciprocity in the Production of Criminal News (Cultural Criminology Study to Editorial Pos Kota) (original) (raw)

In the process of news production, there’s a reciprocity aspect between journalists and news resource that determine how the news will be reproduced and represented. Cultural criminology criticizes the construction form of a news, the focus raised in this paper is the reciprocity aspect that mutually benefits both parties between the criminal journalist and the police institution. The police will always provide information, facilitate access, and news material to criminal journalists, the police are the ones who dominate the information and sources of crime news. Conversely, criminal journalists tend to framing with a positive image (good police) to the main source, the police institution. This paper analyzes the reciprocity aspect of mass media editorial of Pos Kota online. The result of the analysis shows that reporting of criminal journalist of Pos Kota online tends to reproduce and represent positive image of police institution (good police) repeatedly and with certain pattern to keep positive image remain present positively. Therefore, the reciprocity relationship between journalist and its news source has an effect on how a mass media doing framing.