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4. Online Newspapers
An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper which exists on the World Wide Web or internet, either
separately or as an online version of a printed newspaper.
Online newspapers give advantages for both newspaper companies and the readers. Those companies can decrease the
production cost to print the newspapers out. They also can reach the wider range of readers through internet. People do not need to buy
printed newspapers but they can get the news fast from the online newspapers. Since the news are changing and developing in a short
time, the readers can easily renew the information from breaking-news presented by online newspapers in a timely manner.
C. The Jakarta Post
The Jakarta Post is a daily English language newspaper in Indonesia which was launched on April 25, 1983. It is the largest English language newspaper in
Indonesia owned by PT. Bina Media Tenggara, and the head office is in Jakarta. The Jakarta Post is published with many columns. It consists of headline
news, national, opinion, archipelago, world, business, city, reader’s forum, sports,
features, entertainment guide and people. The Opinion Column in The Jakarta Post consists of two pages. It covers Editorial, Letters to the Editor entitled Your
Letters, Other Opinion and Essay.
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The Jakarta Post reports news from both national and international. The recent international issue which becomes interesting to discuss, may be talked
about in several columns in an edition, such as in headline, opinion and world columns. Since the development of technology, people now can not only get the
information from the printed Jakarta Post but also from online Jakarta Post. Everyone can access its official website,
www.thejakartapost.com
, to obtain the newest information. It eases the people to have The Jakarta Post without being a
subscriber because they can easily look for the news in the past edition from the website. However, the contains in online Jakarta Post are not as complete as those
in the printed one since not all columns in printed one are also published in the online one.
D. Opinion Column
Opinion is an article which is the personal opinion or idea of the writer or institution. The reader’s letter is also opinion. In short, the writings which are not
news belong to opinion Sartono, 2006. There are two types of opinion: opinion represents an institution it is
usually called tajuk, pojok, opini and opinion represents personal idea it is usually called kolom opinion column. Kolom can be written by inside or outside
people of the institution, while tajuk is written by people inside the institution. Opinion discusses the actual news by inserting personal idea or opinion,
suggestion, solution, criticism and so on. While news can not be inserted by
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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
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