THE ALIGNMENT OF MEDIA INDONESIA AND SINDONEWS EDITORIAL IN REPORTING "SUMBER WARAS" CASE

Abstract

This study focuses on the alignment of Media Indonesia and Sindonews editorial in reporting Sumber Waras case. Recent news in Indonesia is about Sumber Waras hospital case. It is all about the allegations of irregularities in the procurement of land in West Jakarta. The case starts when there is an audit report from Supreme Court Agency (BPK) in selling and buying process of land in West Jakarta. There are at least two newspapers which show their different point of view in reporting Sumber Waras case. Those newspapers are Media Indonesia and Sindonews. Based on that fact, the researcher is trying to find out the linguistic expressions used to represent Sumber Waras case, the way the newspapers align the case, and the social practice influencing the alignment. This research used descriptive-qualitative method to explain and describe the phenomena which exist in the data related to the alignment of the newspapers through Critical Discourse Analysis. The researcher collected the data by observing two online newspapers which are Media Indonesia and Sindonews dated April 15th, 2016. The researcher uses referential, inferential, and distributional method in the making of the interpretation of the findings. The result shows that the alignment of Sindonews is presented by the support on BPK while Media Indonesia is presented by the support on Ahok. The alignment can be seen from the linguistic expression used in the data. Key Words: alignment, Media Indonesia, Sindonews, Critical Discourse Analysis, Sumber Waras