Analysis of Van Dijk’s Discussion on Online News Text in the Case of Destruction and Hate Speaking of Jerinx

Abstract

Jerinx or JRX is a musician, singer-songwriter, and an Indonesian social media activist. He is best known as the drummer for the rock band Superman Is Dead. Jerinx is also a social activist who has a great influence among young Balinese. Liputan6.com is the site that provides a variety of selected information for its users and also intensively reports on the Jerinx case. Because the mass media is an actor of social construction that defines reality, the researchers aim to analyze the macro structure and micro structure of online news discourse texts. By using descriptive qualitative methods and focusing research on reporting on allegations of defamation and hate speech on social media Instagram on the online media liputan6.com for the period 13th August 2020 to 19th November 2020 using Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis. The results showed that a tendency for the editorial of liputan6.com to side with IDI who reported Jerinx for alleged defamation and hate speech on social media Instagram and that the police action quickly resolved this case, with only 2 pieces of evidence that Jerinx obtained.