Marjinalization of the Government's Role in Handling Covid-19 by Media Tempo

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This research aims to see how Tempo media assesses and positions the Government of the Republic of Indonesia in handling Covid-19 which hit in 2020. Tempo as a Media Company has an ideology and point of view towards the government, as a large media that has high credibility Tempo has a role which is very important in playing a positive or negative sentiment or image. The data used in this research are online media reports and Tempo online magazine titles. The theory used in research to analyze this text is Norrman Fairclough's model of critical discourse analysis (AWK) theory which divides discourse analysis into three dimensions, critical discourse analysis related to the descriptive dimension of the text, the discursive dimension of the text (production, dissemination and consumption of the text), which three dimensions of social practice. This research uses qualitative methods to describe the discourse in the text. The results of the analysis show that textually the tempo of this text uses metaphor as well as transitivity and modality which displays power relations. In terms of discursive practice, this text is produced, circulated and consumed as ideological power, by looking at the characteristics of its coherence and intertextuality as a social practice, this text has a power effect because Tempo in this case carries out the ideological practice of marginalizing the government's role in handling the Covid-19 outbreak, where Tempo as media, we always criticize and are critical of all government actions and policies in handling Covid-19 which have resulted in negative sentiment towards the government of the Republic of Indonesia.