Perception Construction to Political Issues Through Live Interview on Television News

摘要

Participation of young voters considered can contribute a lot in the Presidential Election. Therefore, the Electoral Commission in Indonesia has encourage the students to be more active in the 2014 Election. Ahead of the Presidential Election campaign, many television news programs present political issues to attract the voters attention. One of the models of political news content is designed in the form of live interview with resource persons. The live interview can be a means to construct the audience's perception of political issues, particularly through the role of news anchor and resource persons as visual elements or participants. Qualitative method with semiotic approach is used to analyze the visual elements on the live interview as television show. The quantitative results shows the half of students have the perception that resource persons did not represent the interests of the people and untrustworthy.