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personal idea or opinion in order not to make the news becomes confused and turns into more subjective.
Generally, the articles on this column contains comment, criticism, complain, suggestion or problem solving that may argue, attack and try to
influence and persuade the readers to accept the writ er’s principles Mott, 1958.
E. Letters to The Editor
Letters to the Editor is a special column provided to express people’s feelings, comments and opinions towards issues happening around them. This
column has various names in different media such as Letters, Your Letters and Surat Pembaca.
Letters to the Editor has two-fold purpose. Firstly, it furnishes a safety value for the release of emotional and intellectual promptings. Secondly, it keeps
the editor in touch with his readers by throwing into emphasis those in which the readers are most interested Mott, 1958.
In The Jakarta Post, this column is called as Your Letters Column. It is usually printed under the heading of Opinion Column.
F. Infotainment Banning
Many people argue that infotainment is a negative television program since it often broadcasts people’s personal life. Some have a notion that it can
disturb someone’s privacy. So that two Islamic organizations in Indonesia, NU
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Nahdhatul Ulama and MUI Majelis Ulama Indonesia Indonesia Council of Ulama declared that infotainment is haram.
The issue of infotainment banning appeared when actress Luna Maya was being chased by reporters who wanted to interview about her relationship with
Ariel, the front man of music band namely Peterpan. Since she did not want to be interviewed, she ran while carrying Ariel’s daughter. Unintentionally, a reporter’s
camera knocked the child and caused her crying. Luna Maya got angry. She then wrote on her twitter account that ―infotainment journalists are worse than
prostitutes and murderers‖. This statement caused controversy among celebrities and journalists or reporters.
This issue raised many public opinions, both support and challenge it. Some argue that the haram edict can not be drawn on all of infotainment programs
because only some journalists who do not obey journalistic code of ethics. And some support the issue of infotainment banning since it only presents gossip,
which causes people to fight or provokes family disputes. The Jakarta Post, 2009.
G. Systemic Functional Linguistics
