A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports

Critical discourse analysis studies the relations between discourse, power, dominance, etc. and the position of the analyst. News report, which is a sociopolitical and official discourse, is often greatly affected by power or dominant ideologies and it affects people’s ideologies and attitudes. The comparative study of two pieces of news report on the same event respectively from China Daily and Times New York shows that ideology and power relationship are hidden in the public discourses and serve their purpose of forming people’s ideology.