Critical Discourse Analysis on Medan Newspapers’ Editorial

The aim of this paper is to explore how critical discourse analysis is realized in editorial localnewspaper in Medan. The analysis is grounded based on Norman Fairclough’s assumption oncritical discourse analysis that discussed three dimensions of analysis, such as micro, macro andmeso. The data collected were the editorials of Medan local newspaper between June tillDecember 2012, they are the editorial of Analisa, Andalas, Medan Bisnis, Orbit, SinarIndonesia Baru (SIB), Waspada that observed three major topic of discussions like topic onpolitics, state officials, and social phenomena. Findings are in micro analysis includes languageuse such as the realization of genre, passive voice, collective noun and naming individual, inmacro-analysis shows that the editorials position to control, and in meso analysis are theeditorial’s role in giving his thought. These findings shows that the Medan local newspaper havejust enjoyed for free press in delivering the news