The regional head direct election in 2017 is a democratic party that will be implemented by the Jakarta community. But, the present media has its own model in the news which is broadcasted to the public. With the power to build the public opinion, media are capable of directing the votes for political purposes. Referred to Jakarta Head Election Done Jakarta in October 2016 and April 2017 at Media Indonesia.com. In the period of Seven months there are 5 (five) big issues rose in the news. Those are: issues of electability and support, campaign issues and performance, issues of blasphemy, and issues of political promises in campaigns. The research would like to examine the ideology or political interests of media.indonesia.com and okezone.com, also the works of opinion formation happened in public as well as the meanings of the news publication in the framing that is created by the media against the question of politics. This research use the qualitative approach supported by the quantitative analysis. The analysis has coverage of headline news delivered by two online media, namely mediaindonesia.com and okezone.com in the period of October until April 2017 using the method of Critical Discourse Analysis Model Teun A. Van Dijk. As for the quantitative data, a descriptive analysis using SPSS for the 1541 proclamations published by both mediaindonesia.com and okezone.com. From the above description, the hidden message is that mediaindonesia.com tends to support the pair of Basuki Tjahya Purnama (Ahok) and Djarot Saeful Hidayat. It is indicated by the proportion of publication that is mostly 564 news (56.9%) from the total of 991 reportages are covering Basuki Tjahya Purnama (Ahok) and Djarot Saeful Hidayat, mediaindonesia.com tries to legitimize the high electability and support to the pair Basuki Tjahaja Purnama and Djarot Saeful Hidayat by appointing famous figures both among politicians and artists who provide full support for the couple. Meanwhile, okezone.com tried to give an image that the couple Anies Rasyid Baswedan and Sandiaga Salahudin Uno received great support from the community because the arrogance of the attitude carried out by the incumbent Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok). From the above description, the hidden massage is that okezone.com tends to support Anies Rasyid Baswedan and Sandiaga Salahudin Uno. It is indicated by the proportion of publication that is mostly 324 news (58.9%) from the total of 550 reportages, are covering Anies Rasyid Baswedan and Sandiaga Salahudin Uno. From these things, it can be summed up that the political news coverage scheme in an attempt to build the reputation or the candidates supported by the media. Therefore in the extention of the Teun Van Dijk concept, ideology is an independent unit that must be separated because ideology has intervened in text, cognition, and
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