PERAN MEDIA MASSA NASIONAL DALAM POLITIK INTERNASIONAL

In international politics, the mass media is not only a source of political information but also trigger the occurrence of political change. In general, the mass media has a specific tendency for reporting international coverage of the political events. In short, the media has a major role in the international political communication. Active involvement of the media have spawned the term “media diplomacy”, the mass media as a channel in a diplomatic mission of a state against another state. As “media diplomacy”, the mass media not only report diplomatic events, but also act as negosiator.Related to the media diplomacy that the media as one of the actors in the dynamic system of international relations. Indonesia’s position in the system of international relations greatly influenced the mass media actors.