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


Siti Setia Mintarsih(1*), Denny Kodrat(2), Raynesa Noor Emiliasari(3)

(1) Universitas Majalengka, Indonesia
(2) STBA Sebelas April Sumedang, Indonesia
(3) Universitas Majalengka, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15575/call.v2i2.9403

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