Euphemism of Political News in Republika Online Mass Media

This research deals with euphemism which is found in political news in Republika
mass media. The objectives of this were : (1) to investigate the types of euphemism
used in political news in online mass media, (2) to describe the realization of
euphemism in political news in mass media and (3) to explain the reason for
realization of euphemism in political news in mass media. The research design of this
study was descriptive qualitative research where the researcher explained the result of
research by describing the data gained. There were 26 news with different titles with
54 euphemism. There were ten types of euphemism found in political news in
Republika online mass media, namely indirection 31.4 %, abstraction 12.9 %,
agreement 11.1%, remodeling 9.2%, semantic shift 9.2%, emotive 7.4%,
understatement 5.5%, widening 5.5%, borrowing 3.7%, circumlocution 3.7%.
Furthermore there were four ways of euphemism realized namely, implicit, explicit,
direct, and indirect. Then there were five reasons using the euphemism found in
political news in Republika, namely to cohesive, to protective, to underhand, to
uplifting, and to ludic. The most reason using euphemism is to cohesive