KORUPSI DAN ELIT POLITIK (Analisis Wacana Kritis pada Pemberitaan Korupsi Anas Urbaningrum di Harian Seputar Indonesia (SINDO)
ABSTRACT: Corruption scandal
that involves a high rank political figure is one issue which has a high news
value in media. Therefore, it is not suprising if the media reported it very often especially when it
coincided with the moment before the general election. By using the Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework, this study specifically intends to construe
the discursive strategies and to probe for ideological goals behind the media
text construction about the former Democrat Party leader, Anas Urbaningrum,
corruption case. It focuses on news reporting related to Anas corruption case
in Seputar Indonesia (SINDO) daily during February 2014, at the moment when the
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) declared him a suspect of Hambalang
athlete homestead corruption case. The analysis of this study adopts the Teun
Van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach that devided the texts into three level of
analysis, e.g. text, social cognition,
and social context. The data obtained by documenting texts about Anas corruption
case in February 2013, in-depth interviews, and literature analysis. The
linguistic analysis in the text level
concludes that SINDO daily consistently and sistematically presents data
showing that Anas’ case is more political than criminal. The authors find that
SINDO provides considerable political and law analysts’ comments supporting its
claim that Anas has become a victim of a high political scenario who wants him
retreat from his leadership in the beginning
of their news texts body. In addition, in the title of the news text,
they also put Anas in object position that represent his powerless position.
Related to this, SINDO provides less space for counter statement from powerful
side in Democrat Party who were
allegedly attacking Anas political position. Further, analysis in the
level of socio-cognitive and social context show that SINDO defends Anas because they believe that Anas has been
judged by the majority press even before the trial court actually implemented.
Penulis: Nostal Nuans Saputri,
Catur Suratnoaji
Kode Jurnal: jpkomunikasidd150003
