Newspaper Internet Mass Media

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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW

A. Mass Media

1. Newspaper

Generally, newspaper is one kind of mass media that has a wide variety of material consumed by the largest people in the world to follow what exactly happening with this real world. Emery mentions that newspaper belongs to the oldest mass media carrying the messages in written form 1967: 8. Practical, cheap and easy functions are the reasons people use it. It is practical because of the variety which contains the editorial opinions, criticisms, persuasions, entertainment features, news and forecast, plays and restaurants, etc. As the second reason, newspaper is cheap because people need some money to get this, and the last one it is easy because any places provide newspaper, for instance book shops, book stores, even newspaper subscriptions. People usually choose the simplest way to read newspaper that is just opening the computer, connecting to the internet and then looking up to the newspaper online.

2. Internet

Everything can be found on the internet. Therefore it symbolizes the decentralization, knowledge, information and the data extremely which is also called as the primary needs. The advanced era has brought human being into enlarged needs, not only in primary but also in secondary even tertiary needs because internet provides many kinds of entertainment websites. commit to user 10 Interconnected networking or internet means an association of thousand of computer ’s users that communicate with each other through the network Black, 1999: 1. It is as the communication medium between one and other people or involved in the large community. Internet provides a lot of kinds of social networks which are able to communicate with people in many countries in the world. Internet as the knowledge means that people can dig up millions of the knowledge in a lot of sciences starting from the traditional or simple knowledge to the modern one which is used to fulfill the human needs. Internet as the information and the entertainment gets more excited attention. Internet provides many local, national and international newspapers that give the information from many countries. Newspaper on the internet or online newspaper has a similar form with printed newspaper, but we do not get a problem in searching the previous news. We can get the news which was published on yesterday or a week ago even years ago by clicking and choosing the date w hat we want in ‘search’ column. On the other side, internet as the entertainment purposes to entertain people who may use to cut the work for a while or just look for the fun such as the movie, music, game, etc that easily to access.

3. The Jakarta Post