The motivation for studying this topic?
I want to know why media sometimes less neutral regarding their news neutrality. Might be this is why public have lower trust to media. One primary cause may be because of the influence from the owner. There is two major ownership in general, government and real business person. Media who owned by government tend to support the authority. In contrast, media who were belonging to a business person seems more focus on the quality of their news production and oppose or even do not care about the government. So I need to know what system that would be more trusted by the public regarding media neutrality. Is it government-owned media which always broadcast the government interest or private media which focus only on their business? 

The Journal primary focus is to investigate whose media that trusted by the public in sixteen African countries, whether they believe in public media who owned by a government or private media. The researchers use data from Afrobarometer surveys rounds 2 and 3 to examine mass confidence in public broadcast versus private broadcast. Even though the initial expectations predict that most respondents will have higher trust in private media, the result shows the opposite. In fact, the state-owned media have the stigma about past authoritarian regimes, while private media are independent.

The survey reveals that the public has the higher level of trust in government owned media rather than in private media. There are some major factors influence this result; low political sophistication, illiberal attitudes, and support for incumbents. Furthermore, the researchers suggest that private media should increase their democratic and criticism environment, rather than improve quality reporting and higher press freedom. Overall, majority citizens in participated African countries believe their government media because they are still conservative, while those who not satisfied with the president performance tend to oppose it.

This study represents around one-third of whole African countries, which is all are developing countries in democracy. Therefore, this research suitable with my research question to compare which ownership system will be efficient to raise public trust in Indonesia. However, these research not even half of the African continent regarding the number of sample respondent. If this study conducted at least half or even in a vast majority, it will be more valid.