MORALITAS WARTAWAN ANTARA IDEALITA DAN REALITA

Abstract

Studies and analysis in this paper in the background backs a problem that mass media lately in broadcasting information to the public seems less idealistic, so the news is worth humanity and religion seems less a place in the mass media. In fact, there are still many in the news media often ignore the moral (ethics). That is a lot of information that is communicated or written using vulgar languages. Violating moral in conveying information to the public means that it can provoke anger and hatred can even lead to lawsuits against the mass media. Morality journalism is an attempt to prevent journalists have a negative effect through his writings. Idealist, a journalist in conveying information to the public, guided by moral principles, write down what happened to the state / condition really is. In the matter of morality, consciously absolute journalists to determine and choose exactly what you want to talk to the public. Moral is civility (courtesy) as a guide for obtaining the meaning of morality in the true sense. Moral awareness, a journalist must be built upon a strong foundation in a manner that is able to distinguish between error with truth. For the purpose of this study wanted to know how the application of the moral, the journalist's role in conveying information to the public. In order to gather and collect data and information is current and accurate, the author uses a qualitative method through observation, interviews with content analysis approach and using analytical writing techniques framing. Studies conducted in the formulation of the problem in this paper, revolves around the application of Journalists Between Morality and Reality Idealita in conveying information to the public. The research found, it turns out there is still a use of language that ignores the moral, for example in Harian Serambi Indonesia

Keywords:  Morality journalism, Idealita and reality, news Analysis