PEMBERITAAN SUKSESI BAKAL CALON GUBERNUR RIAU 2013 (ANALISIS ISI BERITA POLITIK DALAM PERSAINGAN SURAT KABAR RIAU POS DAN TRIBUN PEKANBARU )

Abstract

Newspapers are one of the media industry is quite influential in a political battle, where newspapers serve as media of political communication to the public authorities or otherwise. As an industry, the media is also very concerned about the news content (types of content) to support competition among media. This study aims to determain the percentage of political news related Succession Riau Governor Candidates 2013 and the level of competition Riau Pos and Tribun Pekanbaru in getting the types of content. This study uses a quantitative approach to content analysis with Niche Theory as a frame of mind. The unit of analysis are the physical unit and thematic units of period April 1 to June 29, 2013. While the sampling technique used is random sampling method with 239 samples ordinal news, and data analysis techniques used is descriptive analysis. These results indicate that: 1) The percentage of Succession Politics News Riau Governor Candidates 2013 on the Placement Category Sub Headline news in the newspapers and Tribun Pekanbaru Riau Pos is 5% and 6 % (Frequency); 18.8% and 15.2% (Volume). Sub Pages In is 95% and 94% (Frequency); 81.2% and 84.8% (volume). Content on Variety of categories and sub Political Activities CBOs were 33% and 55.4% (Frequency); 43.6% and 55.5% (volume). Sub Candidates were 66% and 42.6% (Frequency); 65.05% and 42.7% (volume). Sub Abuse is 0.7% and 2% (Frequency), 0.59% and 1.8% (volume); 2) The level of competition and the newspaper Tribune Pekanbaru Riau Pos tight battle on the category placement of stories with niche overlap value 0.0002 (Frequency) and 0.002592 (Volume), while the category Content Variety lasted less strict competition with niche overlap value of 0.141 (frequency) and 0.095 (Volume). Niche Breadth in category Content Variety: Riau Pos 1.83 (Tend Specialist); Tribun Pekanbaru 2.04 (Tend Generalist) whereas the second category of news Placement Specialists are newspaper.