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News Media’s Tabloidization
What needs to be done? Detaching completely from digital platforms is definitely not a realistic option. What needs to be done is changing how the national media industry builds independence relative to digital platforms
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On 4 Nov., 2021, the public was shocked by the deaths of actress and model Vanessa Angel and her husband in a fatal accident on the Nganjuk toll road in East Java.
For days the incident was a central topic of media coverage. Day after day, that fateful event caused pressing public issues to lose out on media coverage. It seemed that the press was racing to mine ratings, clicks and page views from the news about the incident.