WACANA POLITIK MEDIA: STUDI ATAS BERITA POLITIK PADA KORAN KOMPAS (EDISI JULIDESEMBER2013) DALAM TINJAUAN TEORI SIMULASI JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The research about Media Political Discourse: Study of Political News on 
Kompas (edition of July-December 2013) in Theory Overview Jean Baudrillard's 
Simulation, motivated by several phenomena which contained in the political 
discourse on political news in the mass media, especially around of the 2014 
elections, which has been constructing as and directing as of publik opinion and 
political reality of society into a single reality, so that, between facts and political 
opinion are become blurred. The aims of this research is to describe and then analyze 
the form of Jean Baudrillard's theory of simulation, especially in reviewing of media 
discourse. The aims of this research is analyze and reveal the changes of the political 
discourse in the mass media to a political reality through political news of Kompas. 
The aims of this research is analyze, explain and than reveal the media role in 
constructing a political reality and public mindset on their reality of political life and 
democracy in the view of Jean Baudrillard's theory of simulation. 
This research is the library research, which uses the method: language 
analitic, which function as to povide a thorough understanding of the meaning of 
language expression, especially of the analogal language, which contained in political 
news of Kompas. Semiotics, which function as to provide an overview of the system 
of sign which covered in the political media discourse of Kompas. Hermeneutic, 
which function as to understand the deepest meaning of political media discourse 
which contained in Kompas. 
The results of this research showed that the political reality in the political 
media discourse of Kompasâ��s political news, basically does not exist or was died, so 
there is only a pseudo-political reality, which consumed by the public as a the real of 
reality. This condition definitely indicating the hyperreality of meaning of the 
political reality by itself, which in practice, the hyperreality of meaning of the 
political reality is often used as political tools by the interested parties. Thus, The 
mass media has become politicization tools of opinion and political reality in the 
public sphere, with the way of politicization of meaning by means of the language 
which used in its political discourse. Politicization of meaning in political news of 
Kompas that changed the political discourse into a political reality and composing 
and than reinforcing or consolidating public opinion, and also, composing the public 
mindset of the phenomena or the political events that are or have been in progress.