NEWSPAPER IDEOLOGY: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON 2002 BALI BOMBING AND PAPUA CONFLICT REPORTED BY SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Abstract

SMH is written with social, cultural and ideological context of Australian societies so what is written in thenewspaper is the reflections of Australia’s views towards certain issues it is reported, therefore, as one ofthe influential Australian printed mass media, SMH is assumed to view the issues in Indonesia such asPapua Conflict and 2002 Bali Bombings from its particular point of view. This research paper, hence, isaimed at describing, interpreting and explaining the ideology represented in the lexical choices, used inSMH. To uncover those ideologies, Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Halliday’sSystemic functional Grammar (SFG) were used. There are two allotments of social actors described in thisresearch, the Out groups who are those of having different point of view from the SMH in examining theissues and the In groups who have the same point of view as the media at looking at the issues. The researchfindings show that mostly the Out groups were evaluated negatively. This evaluation is as the reflection ofAustralia’s different ideologies from Indonesia, its interest towards Indonesia particularly Papua,Australia’s anxiety towards JI movement and it’s sensitivity that JI is considered as a threat for Australiaand its assets.