Abstract

This study describes the dramatization of the COVID19 vaccination news broadcast on television in Indonesia. This research has a constructivist paradigm and an interpretive approach with a qualitative descriptive method. The research object is to broadcast the news about the COVID 19 vaccination on the Kompas Petang program on Kompas TV and Metro Hari Ini (MHI) on Metro TV from January - 28 to January 2021. Metro TV and Kompas TV were chosen as research objects because, as news TVs, they are ideologically different. Kompas TV is independent because it is not affiliated with a political party, while Metro TV is pro-government because its owner is the General Chair of the National Democratic Party (Nasdem), a government supporter. W. Lance Bennett's dramatized news theory and John Langer's concept of tabloid television was used to answer the research questions. The study found the following forms of dramatization of COVID-19 vaccination reporting: highlighting conflicts in the news of COVID-19 vaccination; displaying dramatic images to evoke the emotions of the audience; use of Natural Sound and back sound that are dramatic and suspenseful; news headlines that give the impression of frightening the audience; make artists and politicians as news and trivialization of COVID-19 vaccination news.

Keywords: audience; COVID19; dramatization of news, television; vaccination