Critical Discourse Analysis of The Social Construction of The Van Dijk News Model Covid-19 Vaccine in Online mediaindonesia.com and cnnindonesia.com

Abstract

This research is entitled "Analysis of the critical discourse of A. Van Dijk on the Covid-19 vaccine news discourse on Cnnindonesia.com and Mediaindonesia.com Online Media". This research was based on the fact that the media is not a neutral idea. Media is always being influenced by ideology and power control. Some of their news represents the facts that the media creates, not the reality that happens for the personal intentions of the journalists or the media ideology, which results in the news to have a certain dominance and purpose. It also occurs in the news about Covid-19 vaccine. As it is, researchers try to do a discourse analysis of the news presented in order to give contribution to news readers to be able to understand the news, and reporters to be able to maintain their professionalism . The purpose of this study is to describe the structure of text, social cognition, and social context in the field of Covid-19 vaccine discourse released on Medaindonesia.com and CNNindonesia.com through January 2021. The result of this research showed that First, each media presents a text structure in accordance with the theme of the news, supported by appropriate title, presents a schematic element that has a coherent and coherent unity, as well as microstructure elements (semantic, graphic , linguistic style) presented by journalists to describe the meaning of the news specifically as they mean. Second, journalists are able to describe events or someone presented in text to convince readers of the news according to journalists' recognition. Third, the news discourse presented by having access and power as well as media alignment towards certain groups or individuals.