MEDIA DAN KONSTRUKSI REALITAS ATAS BERITA TRAGEDI KERUSUHAN STADION KANJURUHAN MALANG (STUDI ANALISIS FRAMING PADA MALANG POSCO MEDIA PERIODE OKTOBER 2022)

The riots that occurred during the Malang Kanjuruhan Stadium tragedy resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries. This issue has attracted public attention both on a national and international scale. The involvement of mass media in presenting and disseminating information has an important role not only as a forum for conveying information to the public. However, it also has an active and persuasive role in reporting on the Kanjuruhan riots. The emergence of pros and cons as well as sides from various parties cannot be separated from the role of the media as a forum and distributor of information to the public. Each journalist and media has different sides, one of which is Malang Posco Media.

This research uses the Framing Analysis research method of Zhongdan Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki to analyze the data. Researchers use a constructivist paradigm with an interpretive qualitative approach. Apart from that, researchers also used the Hierarchy Theory of the influence of mass media content proposed by Shoemaker to see Malang Posco Media's alignment with the kanjuruhan issue.

The results and findings in this research show that Malang Posco Media takes sides on the side of the kanjuruhan victims. Malang Posco Media forms a framing of the Kanjuruhan riot tragedy that takes sides with the Kanjuruhan victims by looking at the angle of writing, the choice of words in headlines, leads and news bodies, the selection of news sources, and the use of photos that direct readers to lean towards the Kanjuruhan victims. Then, Malang Posco Media constructed the Kanjuruhan riot tragedy by writing news that presented the progress of the investigation of Kanjuruhan victims, case investigation, inspections carried out by TGIPF, reconstruction demonstrations of the Kanjuruhan incident, and fact findings in the field, and the determination of suspects in the Kanjuruhan tragedy case which claimed 135 lives. Casualties after the Arema FC match against Persebaya on October 1 2022.