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Infotainment programs are again creating controversies. The University of Indonesia recently awarded a doctorate in communications to a lady who concluded that infotainment is not a product of journalism.
Tempo
July 21, 2010
MULHARNETTI Syas has a new title: “Doctor of Infotainment”. The 45-year-old is not just a happy participant in the debate—which has livened up again—as to whether infotainment is true journalism or merely gossip. She has instead actually researched it. Mulharnetti received her doctorate in communications with her dissertation entitled Power Relations in the Television Industry Culture in Indonesia: A Study of Television Culture in Infotai
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