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The Alliance of Independent Journalists, together with Tifa Foundation was monitoring the content of 10 news dailies from June 12-Aug. 4. Based on the result, they said that the print media has violated the traditional professional standards of impartiality and objectivity in their coverage of the gubernatorial election.

The dailies are Indo Pos, Kompas, Pos Kota, Warta Kota, Media Indonesia, The Jakarta Post, Suara Pembaruan, Koran Tempo, Rakyat Merdeka and Republika.

Ignatius Haryanto, the research coordinator, said that they were focusing on content analysis to measure the impartiality of a publication. And in result, they got some newspapers did not provide fair and balanced reporting and endorsed or outrightly opposed a particular candidate.

Hmm.. Why am I not surpised?

Please click here to read the article from one of the research object, The Jakarta Post.

Topic: Ethics, Media Credibility