<![CDATA[This study was aimed to identify the textual meaning of the issue of LGBT published in the Newsweek Magazine. This study employed theory of Appraisal introduced by martin and Rose (2005). More specific, this study focused on the graduation of the issue of LGBT. This theory was initiated previous theory, discourse analysis. The data consists of primary data and secondary data. The primary data of this study is from some headlines column contained of appraisal system on the Newsweek online Magazine. The finding is there were two categories force and focus based on table above appear force has 82.4% with 14 utterance, while Focus 17.6% with only 3 utterance, there force stand higher than focus. Hence, journalist Newsweek online magazine n issue of used the words in which evaluated based on issue of issue of LGBT more dominantly weak in evaluating LGBT issue news due to force from the low category is used more often than force strength to evaluate this issue]]>
