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manage to contribute to the good of society in the process, this might be seen as a positive
spin-off rather than the main aim’ (p. 3).
Having said that, to simply ignore or downgrade this kind of journalism within the
Indonesian print media landscape represents a narrow-minded perspective. This kind of
journalism will always there and develops as long as the market is existed, and tabloids
present value to their target readers. As an alternative, tabloid journalism could be
reinvented in a way that ‘preserves its best elements, subtracts the worst and still glows’
(Shafer, 2009). In this case, tabloid journalism in Indonesia could be reinvented by
remaining local in terms of the issues it discusses instead of dwelling on drama and
sensationalism.
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