CALL
Vol 2, No 2 (2020): CALL

TEMPO’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE REPRESENTATION OF GOVERNMENT IN DEALING WITH COVID-19 CASES

Siti Setia Mintarsih (Universitas Majalengka)
Denny Kodrat (STBA Sebelas April Sumedang)
Raynesa Noor Emiliasari (Universitas Majalengka)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Sep 2020

Abstract

Tempo.co as well-known mass media in Indonesia gains tremendous attention from public reader concerning Covid-19 pandemic. The influential news that it produced has discursive dimension that can be analyzed by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This study is a textual analysis that uses CDA theory with purposive sampling from tempo.co news as the data. In this study, it can be found that Tempo.co portray this media as a ‘watchdog’ that serves to supervise those who have a power within politics (government). Tempo’s newspaper produces text news that reflects to the government depiction in their policies. Thus, Tempo’s newspaper led the readers to give a positive image to Tempo.co as an active and existent media in serving the truth. Tempo.co try to gain the public trust to consume their news, then Tempo will get a high profit in it. Keywords: CDA; Ideology; Socio-culture; Mass Media

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jcall

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

CALL is a journal that presents Critical Analysis on Language and literature. This journal focuses on the analysis of text scrutinized by theories from linguistics, literary analysis, discourse analysis, to critical theories. This journal accepted the analysis of text of any language, especially, ...