Exclusion Strategy Definition

Exclusion is a process of disappearing actors from the news. Exclusion divided into two types, they are Suppression and Backgrounding. Based on Theo Van Leeuwen, the difference between suppression and backgrounding is the point that it leaves trace or not in the representation. Suppression is type of exclusion that leaves no traces in the representation, excluding both the social actors and also their activities. Suppression also divided into Passivation and Nominalization. Passivation is a strategy that makes the news presented as passive clause or sentence while nominalization is a strategy that makes the action being a nomina. Beside of that, backgrounding is type of exclusion that leaves traces in the representation. The excluded social actors in a specific activity shows later in another clause, sentence or text. However, as a limitation for this research, only exclusion passivation strategy is used as the tool to examine the data.