SPASIALISASI KELOMPOK MEDIA MNC

Abstract

Media is in the triangulation of the state, market and civil society. The twomedia interests that influences media content are economic and power. As economic institution, media has a close relation with politic system. The economy politic relations transforms the use value of media into marketable product for a
profit, as the result of monopolistic tendency and integration process, both vertically and horizontally. Media concentration has a significant influence on the content of media as occurred
in MNC Group represented the economic and politic interests of the owner. Media output was controlled by market that called market-driven journalism and caused the public interest to find the truth was lost.

Keywords : political economy, spatialization, market-driven journalism, hegemony, agenda setting