Pewarta-pengajar televisi

Laporan kali ini sebuah round-up [rangkuman] tentang perilaku para panggota DPR yang suka tertidur selama rapat. Entah rapat-rapat komisi, hearing, atau rapat paripurna. Tak kurang ‘bagus’-nya, beberapa anggota dewan suka merokok di ruang rapat mereka sendiri yang ber-PT [Pengatur Temperatur] atau AC. Tak usah dijelaskan bahwa di sana jelas ada larangan merokok. Ini berita bagus. [...]

Indonesia rancu, akward English, super inferior

Saya sering tak habis pikir melihat perilaku media di Indonesia — cetak dan elektronik — yang kehilangan kepercayaan diri total kalau tidak omong atau membubuhkan ungkapan-ungkapan bahasa Inggris, padahal 100 persen permirsa atau pembacanya orang Indonesia totok. Lihat tajuk tajuk Metro TV yang merasa keren dan maju dengan ’save our nation’, ‘headline news’ ‘top news’ [...]

MORE TV CHANNELS BUT STILL NOTHING TO WATCH

When Indonesia’s television industry opened up four years ago, more media freedom and wider information access were supposed to be among the benefits.
But even though Indonesians now have nine channels to choose from, media experts here say that the kind of shows and programs the stations are offering remain essentially the same.
That is really bad [...]

Half a Century of Turmoil for Indonesia’s Media

The early 1950s came to be known as the period of so-called ‘personality journalism’. That is, a media dominated by a few well-known figures.

It was a time when the performance of the newspaper was very much determined by the associated figure. A newspaper or magazine that did not have a reputed public figure would be [...]