Construction of the Language and the Structure of News Text in Blog
Riskha Arfiyanti, Mr Syihabuddin, Vismaia Sabariah Damaianti, Dadang S. Anshori · 2018
Information dominates people's lives and becomes the main every day consumption in the digital age.This is supported by the easy and the speedyaccess of information that can be obtained from various sources, especially through online media.Production and dissemination of information belong to anyone.The emergence of the internet, more specifically the presence of various social media, such as blogs allows anyone to do this activity.Blogs become one form of effective media to spread news.The abundance of information also raises varieties of issues, such as the information accuracy, the objectivity, and the hoax news.Therefore, it requires bloggers abilities to write good news.This article aims to describe the abilities of bloggers in writing news text that is studied based on the characteristics of the constructionofthe language structure.Language structure construction is a good journalistic writing standard.The research method used is ananalyticaldescriptive approach.The source of research data is a trending topic news text written on the blog sitesof the Cirebon's blogger community.The results of the analysis show the overall ability of bloggersin news writing observed from the structure and the language aspect that the structure is identified to be good enough, yet the language use has not been entirely met the requirements of good language of news.