| dc.description.abstract | The objects are the text of news report from many newspapers. They are
the Jakarta Post, the Guardian, the New York Times and the Age National. They
report the same issue about spying of Australia to Indonesia. Their report looks
neutral but the content of the report tends to Bias implicitly. Bias can emerge
because of power that is gained by the journalists. It is interesting to investigate
the factor behind bias the journalists serve to give a support for Australia.
The goal of this study is to examine the language used by the journalists
in their news report in serving bias. This study is conducted to reveal the
production of bias used by the journalists to report the issue of spying. The
investigation of this research bases on the theory of SFL proposed by Halliday
from the point of processes and participants include in transitivity. Moreover, the
theory of CDA is to see the implicit meaning from the language used.
The nature of this study is statistical, descriptive, and interpretative.
Those types of analysis research are applied on quantitative and qualitative
researches. The method of collecting data is applied documentary method. In
sorting data, purposive sampling has been conducted to select the intended things
(Mickey and Gass, 2005:122). There are 74 clauses sorted from each newspaper.
In processing, the verb processes of clauses are coded into tabulation in terms of
transitivity by Martin, et.al (1997). Finally, in interpreting, combining the
grammatical knowledge features and my own opinion helps.
The findings of this thesis reveal that the processes the journalists used
and the choice verbs in the news report indicate bias to support Australia. There
are orders of mostly used verb process. They are material, mental, relational and
verbal clauses. Furthermore, verb processes have models to design the event or state of affairs describe by the clause. In line with this, Fowler (1991:73) states
type of predicates (verb processes) are action and process that relate to change the
world, and states that imply no change or development.
Moreover, the participants also take a hand in clauses or give an effect to
the clause; therefore, bias can be seen from the participants in the clause too.
According to Fowler (1991:98), some simple analysis can reveal a lot about the
categorization of participants. Finally, the information of issue spying aims to the
readers that are designed or constructed by journalists. The media of reports will
inform and frame their news report by subjective of the journalists. Therefore, the
implication of bias appears in the news report. | en_US |
