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Generally, the analysis above and in the previous sub-chapter have proved the subjectivity and ideology of the writer. The table below simplifies the result.
Table 4.9.5 Result of the Evaluation and Ideology Analysis Artist
Katy Perry Leona Lewis
Miley Cyrus Chris Brown
Text
Text 1 Text 2 Text 3 Text 4 Text 5 Text 6 Text 7 Text 8
Evaluation
Positive Negative
Ideology
Right antagonist Left antagonist
These kinds of evaluation exist in almost all of the texts written by Perez Hilton on perezhilton.com. Eight of hundred texts have proved the way Perez
Hilton writings his gossip news texts. The content of the texts on perezhilton.com is interesting to read.
However, it is better to Perez Hilton, as a journalist, to be an objective writer. It is because; the texts that he writes expose, indeed, the fact of celebrities, although
there are gossip and opinion within those texts as well. It is legal to give his opinion about what he has written on his own blog, but he also has to put another
point of view or another side of the celebrities to make the texts or the news proportional.
2. Related Researches
As the secondary data, the researcher takes information of Perez Hilton and perezhilton.com from some sources to verify the result in the previous sub-
chapter. Firstly, based on Wikipedia.org , Perez Hilton’s points of view on
celebrity gossip never express remorse after entering and being apart of celebrity
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culture. Some people propose that his closeness to some celebrities about whom he writes has made a deviated reportage on his blog. For example, he rarely
reports on stories or rumors exposing Paris Hilton, which is his close friend, with negative evaluation, and he often acknowledges and praises her positive
achievements. In early 2007, he was criticized by the blog The Hollywood Gossip for ignoring racist and homophobic remarks made by Paris Hilton. However,
Hilton has been known to speak out publicly against the discriminatory behavior of celebrities and other public figures. For instance, he called for firing Isaiah
Washington from ABC television series Grey’s Anatomy for making homophobic
statement and called for his readers to do the same. Additionally, Hilton often promotes his favorite up-and-coming musicians
by posting streams of their songs under the ―Listen To This‖ category of his blog. Mika, a singer from London, in 2007 rises to popular success in North America. It
has been partially attributed to Hilton’s frequent support. Another source, Wired.com states that Perez Hilton often uses himself-
styled dictions. These are samples from Hiltons work: ―OMG ... Justin Timberlake is box office POISON ... Jesse Jackson is in Deep Shiz ... Amy
Winehouse Her performance was a hot mess ‖.
Besides writing-up, Perez Hilton also puts some childlike graffiti on pictures of the artist. For examples, ―L. Ron wuz here,‖ scribbled over a shot of
Tom Cruise, and the word ―Fake‖ branded on the breasts of actress and reality show regular Brigitte Nielsen. Or, he often puts some symbols on the pictures,
David Brown, wired.com. These additional texts on photos strengthen the ideology that he has, whether he likes or dislikes.
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According to those secondary data, it is realized that Perez Hilton tends to be subjective and tends to be ―antagonist‖ in writing his texts. However, the
―antagonist‖ of the ideology depends on the artist being talked about. He will evaluate good if he likes or befriends with some celebrities. On the contrary, he
will evaluate badly the celebrities whom he does not like.
Other researches that also discuss about appraisal in English are researches by Valentina Widya 2008, Warsono 2009, Intan Widya Pradita 2010, and
Fajar Rizky Arjuno 2011. It is important to discuss theirs here, to find out the similarities and differences to draw a relation among them and this thesis as well,
in order to achieve the development of Appraisal System. First of all, Valentina Widya, who has been accomplished a dissertation
entitled ―Analisis Sistem Appraisal dan Ideologi dalam Kolom Punk-Zine‖ 2008. What have been analyzed in this research are six columns taken from
United States Punk-zine published in 1980-1990. This research reveals the writer’s attitude identified through appraisal devices in punk-zine columns. The
attitude that the writer wants to tell to the reader are negative attitude given by the writer to the government, positive attitude to punk music and punk life. The
ideology that the writer wants to present is opposed to government and is supporting the free thought and free speaking
. The second one is researched by Warsono. He discusses about appraisal
entitled ―Appraisal Devices as a Means to Disclose Ideological Stance‖ 2009. This research
exposes the analyzed text which the title is ―Al-Qaeda in the Asia Pacific: Origin, Capability, and Threat‖ written by Rohan Gunaratna from the book
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―Inside Al-Qaeda: Global Network of Terror‖ 2002. The result of this research shows that the writer has a negative feeling toward the text he writes. Thus, the
writer gives deeply negative evaluations to that organization. The writer evaluation towards the material of the text is truly negative, that is, Al-Qaeda is a harmful
organization. Based on this research,
it can be concluded that the writer’s attitudes towards the subject he is writing Al-Qaeda is strongly negative. Ideological belief
is implied that Al-Qaeda is an evil or dangerous organization. This can be seen from the strong negative affect, judgment, and appreciation.
Another one is ―A Comparative Analysis of Appraisal between Editorial
Column and Opinion Column Exposing the Banning of Smoking Published on the Jakarta Post Newspaper
‖ which has been researched by Intan Widya Pradita 2010. This research trashes out a problem about banning of smoking. There are
two texts which are analyzed here; both of them are analyzed using Appraisal Theory. The f
irst text is entitled ―The Smoking Gun‖, while the second text is ―Smoking Is a Matter of Choice‖. These are taken from The Jakarta Post.
The first text is applied in analytical exposition genre, and the second text is in discussion. Both of the texts have the same voice, that is, more subjective.
The ideology is left antagonist for the text 1 and left protagonist for the second text. This means they are all contrasting the issue. To sum up, both texts oppose
the issue. Another research is done by Fajar Rizky Arjuno 2011. The title of the
research is ―A Comparative Analysis of Appraisals of Two Texts on Opinion Column in the Jakarta Post Exposing the Bailout of Bank Century‖. This research
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discusses about two texts on opinion column taken from the same media The Jakarta Post. The issue of the texts is about the bailout of Century Bank. The two
texts have a contradiction. The first text entitled ―The Fallout of the Century‖
disagree with the decision made by Sri Mulyani the Minister of Finance, and Boediono. Meanwhile, the second text entitled ―Why the Bank Century Bailout
was a Correct Decision?‖ shows that bailout Century was a correct decision. Both text 1 and 2 are applied in the different genre. The genre of the first
text is analytical exposition, and the second text is discussion. The prosody of the first text is more subjective and the second text is more objective. The ideologies
of the texts are also different. The first text is left antagonist and the second text is right protagonist
. The conclusion of this research is that this research analyzed two texts which have the same issue. Both are taken from the same media, but the
writers are different. One supports the issue and another does not. Some researches above are then compared to this research to find the
correlation between them and this thesis. The first is the information of Perez Hilton and perezhilton.com related to the gossip news. It is stated that Perez
Hilton indeed has his own style in writing gossip news. He is too ‘subjective’ and
‘antagonist’ when evaluating the celebrities. Therefore, this secondary data has proved and has straightened the result of this thesis that there is a similarity
between what has been analyzed here and his habit in writing gossip news texts. In addition, there have been some researches that exploit appraisal theory.
Some of them are Valentina Widya ’s 2008, Warsono’s 2009, Intan Widya
Pradita ’s 2010, and Fajar Rizky Arjuno’s 2011 researches. Similar to this
thesis, theirs also compare some texts to be analyzed, except the research by
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Warsono which only examines one. Additionally, all of these researches, including this thesis, do not only discover the appraising items in the texts but also
the genre, the prosody and the ideologies at the end of the researches. However, what makes this research different from others are that other researches try to find
the ideologies of their texts which have one same issue. However, this research does not compare the texts based on the same issue but it is compared based on
the same writer. This research is accomplished to find out the writer’s ideologies
towards the texts. Moreover, other researches analyze texts that are taken from opinion column, editorial column and book. On the other hand, this research
analyzes texts that are taken from gossip news column which is remarked mildly. Because the analyzed texts here are taken from gossip news column,
accordingly, the result will have differences from the result of the previous researches. Most attitudes that are found in the previous researches are
appreciation , but in this research, the mostly appeared attitude is judgment. It is
because the previous researches ta lk about ‘a problem’ which the result will be
mostly evaluating things, events, or conditions. Conversely, these texts talk about ‘a person’ or celebrities. Consequently, there must be more judgment than other
types. To sum up, Media is one of some ways to deliver message and to convey
ideology. Meanwhile, Appraisal analysis is a part of ―Interpersonal Meaning‖
which intends to find ideology of the writer towards hisher text especially in the media. The previous researches compare texts which have the same issue, but
with different writer. The writers are no longer important because the texts are published in public mass media for example newspaper which have their own
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ideology. Therefore, the ideologies of the writers towards their texts are also influenced by the ideology of the media the newspaper.
On the other hand, the writer of the texts in this research Perez Hilton is very important because he writes all texts by himself, and he puts all texts on his
own website. His ideologies which is similar with the ideology of his website, does influence the content of the texts.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
A. Conclusion
Based on the result of the analysis of gossip news texts by Perez Hilton about Katy Perry, Leona Lewis, Miley Cyrus, and Chris Brown, as explained in
Chapter IV, accordingly, the conclusion can be drawn as follow:
1. The appraising items applied in the texts.
All kinds of attitudes; affect, judgment, and appreciation are applied in the texts that have been analyzed, except the second text of Katy Perry; there are only
judgment and appreciation. Based on the number of the results, there are 25
affect , 46.21 judgment, and 28.79 appreciation. Therefore, it can be
concluded that the writer tends to evaluate the artists, rather than showing his own feelings and evaluating everything related to the artists, although there are more
affect than others in some texts. The positive attitudes are mostly put into the texts
of Katy Perry and Leona Lewis, but negative attitudes are mostly put into the texts Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown. This means that the writer tends to be interested to
Katy Perry and Leona Lewis, but he detests Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown. The types of the appraising items are in the forms of word, nominal group
and clause. There are minor clause 7.5, grammatical items 6.7, attitudinal lexis
15, modal adjuncts 2.2, metaphor words 6, epithet groups 23.1, metaphor groups 3.7, mental process clauses 13.4, mental
behavior process clauses 1.5, relational process clauses 9.7, and modality
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