| Summary: | This study reviews the Diplomatic Visits as a Media Event (News Content
Analysis of Diplomatic Visits in The Jakarta Post Period 1 July to 31 December
2010).
tends to sources of news more emphasis on formal information
The results of this study include: First, the most important tends to the
position on the page in the news, and very little is in the position of headline and
non headline, this is a view that the mass media has put a committed international
news substance in the rubric world (page in the news). Second, form of news to
prefers hard news reported, with a reported reason as the better and quality, in the
context of public diplomacy, should be the preferred soft news, considering
bilateral diplomacy is a long process and will touch the issues of the nation and
state. Third,
channels and one-sided coverage. This is a reason of the mass media about
diplomacy as a conventional diplomacy and assessing the functions of
government only, so it is the government's most important sources of news.
Fourth, the significance of news value and tends to neutral is evidence that the
news media events of diplomatic visit more emphasis on national interests.
Fifth, the tendency of the news on the first tiers state in the context of the
proximity is proof that public diplomacy perspective that the first tiers are
contributing countries for Indonesia, as seen from the quantity of the contracts.
Sixth, media events tend to side with the President / Prime Minister, because the
role of the President and the Prime Minister as head of state, which has
implications for the mechanism of dialogue in a diplomatic visit, and President /
Prime minister as number one of newsmakers at international or national mass
media. Seventh, the \"economic and development\" and the category \"other\" had the
greatest quantity of the all news. Economic and development diplomacy as the top
priority for the international economic and trade relations and the increasingly
important role the necessity of foreign policy. It is in the framework of economic
growth and the achievement of development and prosperity of the nation state.
Category of \"other\" addressing the tendency in some news items is a form of
cooperation that emphasizes all areas of cooperation, for example �comprehensive
partnership�.
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