Revealing and Dismantling Ideological Media Texts

The purpose of this study is to reveal and dismantle ideology on media texts based on the form of exclusion and inclusion. The research is a qualitative study that assessed using critical discourse analysis based on Theo Van Leeuwen perspective. The data in this study is the verbal (e.g. words, phrases, clauses, and sentences) and nonverbal (e.g. context unbiased opinions about current events discussion, reviews about the issues that are loaded, and the subjective mind editor). Sources of data obtained from headlines in Kompas and Fajar Newspaper published in March and April 2015. The data collection technique used is the technique of documentation, reading technique, and taking notes technique. The results showed that the disclosure and dismantling ideological media texts using the two strategies, namely: 1) the exclusion in the form of passive and noun and 2) the inclusion in the form of differentiation, abstraction, categorization, and associations.