Ideology in Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Statements in Pakistani Newspapers

Abstract

Media plays an important role in making relationships between the public and statesmen. Statesmen are intended to propagate their ideologies to the situation in favor of them. Politicians try to make the situation as favoring them and false for opponents through political statements. Political ideologies are constructed and deconstructed through the loaded statements to produce public opinion towards a specific group or person. Current study is made in this perspective to analyze the political statements of the politicians regarding specific situations. The study is qualitative and is conducted to highlight the underlying political ideologies presented in the political statements. To explore the underlying power and hidden ideologies, approach of CDA is of Fairclough (2010) and Van Dijk (2001) ‘s CDA approach have been adopted as tools of data analysis. The results of the study describe that political statements and the terms are fully loaded with the ideologies and the power stretches. Every party is intended to win the favour of the people with the legitimated and the favoring terms which are acceptable for the public.