Representation of Events in the News by Theo van Leeuwen

Discuss an implicit meaning of a word can not be separated from how a text is present or represented into a sentence. In print news, a message that has been observed by a journalist then direpresetasikan into news text, in the form of a representation of the news that certain events into the composition of the text, can be considered how a journalist convey a reality, news reader memperhaikan how a group can dominate the discourse in the news.

Dominated the intended is, a force which is owned by a group to control the interpretation of a news reader. Domination that occur in the form of a text message to the media imaging perpetrators and victims in the news. For example, the workers, peasants, beggars, street children are the ones plaguing the society. Or a lively student demonstrations could be an example, that students are presented with the image that they are anarchist groups, often destructive and glad create chaos. All forms of imaging as it is done simply by representing a true incident that happened to be the composition of the text with the choice of words and form sentences.

In Discourse Analysis, Eriyanto said that one of the most important agents in defining the group is the media. Through continuous news spread, the media is indirectly shaping understanding and awareness in kepaala audience about something. Discourse created by the media could be legitimizing a thing or delegitimize or marginalized groups and other groups. We often feel any injustice in the news about the rape of women. How will the victims were described as bad, so the audience is not sympathetic and even more sympathetic to men who become actors.In cases like this, that the news in the media convey a particular discourse. Theo van Leeuwen introduce a model of discourse analysis, the analytical models to detect or determine how a group is present as a marginalized group.

In general, van Leeuwen analysis showing how the parties and actors (individual or group) is displayed in the news. According to him, there are two points of focus of attention. First, the process of spending (exclusion), namely whether there is a text message or a group of actors who issued the proclamation, which is intended to release a person or actor in the news is, the behavior of eliminating or disguise the actors / actors in the news, so the news that the victims who become peerhatian the news.

The process of this expenditure is not langsunng can change the understanding of the audience will be an issue and legitimize the position of a certain understanding. Say in the news about the "student demonstrations that took place in dispute that the police opened fire, finally a university student was shot dead". Of student demonstrations over the incident, whether the news of the police then issued a proclamation, so the shooting victims were highlighted in the news, so the impression is present then that student demonstrations deserve a shot to death.

The second is the process of entering (inclusion). This process is the opposite of the process of exclusion, this process relates to the question of how a person or group of actors in an event dimassukkan or represented in a story. Either exclusion or inclision, there is a discourse strategy. By using the word, phrase, sentence information or the composition of a particular form, a certain way of storytelling, each group dirempresentasikan into a text. In the subsequent discussion. Will be explained more into details about how the work patterns of exclusion and inclusion in the representation of actors in the news.