The role of mass media and news report in crisis.

Abstract

              The media is regarded as one of the most important roles in society. By mainly reporting news that occur in the society for the public immediately, based on accuracy and impartiality. The reporting news under crisis situation must prepare before reporting news. In order to communicate to the public to not be panic with the events that are happening. However, with the emerge of new media, news reporting becomes easier and will affect the traditional media that must compete with new media based on timeliness. However, the media must have a primary duty to set the agenda for the crisis news to be clear on what issues should be presented or should not be present to reduce panic to the audience. Also, information must be screened to be accurate before presenting. The advantage of the traditional media is reliability. Therefore, news reports should be selected based on accuracy first and foremost. Because whenever the traditional media tries to compete with the new media the mistakes in news reporting can be reduce the credibility of the traditional media and may result in the crisis that is worse because of the news reporting.