1. Introduction Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a new linguistic tool that aims to discover inequality in language.

One of the main targets of CDA is news report. W. Lance Bennett (1983, p. 125) defines news as information that is timely, relevant to the concerns of its audience, and presented in a form that is easy to grasp. As an important channel of information transmission, news report always advocates its hard factsunbiased information-releasing. However, with the systematical analysis of CDA, this is not the case any more. The world that the news report tries to deliver is not objective straightforward but the one that has already been understood and processed. In other words, news is the end-product of a complex process which begins with a systematic sorting and selecting of events and topics according to a socially constructed set of criteria of news worthiness. It is not a natural phenomenon emerging straight from reality, but essentially a kind of social practice (Fower, 1979, p. 12). Driven by concerns, values and ideologies, news report tends to strategically deal with the facts by mentioning and stressing some purposely-selective facts to influence the readers emotion and make them follow a rational line to accept its idea. Not understanding procedures of news making, the general public confronts the obstacles to see the material-controlling of the news report which leads them to turning blind eyes to the ideologies hide in the news, ultimately being misled. From the linguistic perspective, CDA can serve as the powerful analytical tool to expose the true nature of news report language and bring the rational judgment back to the readers by offering critically understanding of their tendency and characteristics. 2. The concept of Critical Discourse Analysis Theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was first established by Fowler, Kressand and Trew (1979) in their book Language and control since CDA became a new linguistic method. It is mainly to expose the influence of the ideology on discourse and the retroaction of discourse on ideology, as well as how ideology and discourse originate from the social structure and how they serve different power groups with the support of linguistics, psychology and communication theories. It is intended to discover the usage of language and expose its connection with social relations. 3. The main methods of Critical Discourse Analysis The methods of linguistics analysis serve as the foundation for the methods of analysis in CDA. With the analysis on the language level, it generally adopts the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics that at least provides assistances in three perspectives to realize its objective of analysis on discourse from CDA: (1) Hallidays theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics has the function of social semeiology which reveals that language can be fully understood only when it is set in cultural environment; (2) Systemic Functional Linguistics takes semantics rather than syntax as its base to be in accordance to the opinion of some critical linguistics expressed as meaning serves for power and language serves for ideology; (3) The three meta-functions of Systemic Functional Linguistics provide the concrete methods for CDA. CDA belongs to tool linguistics whose research objective is to expound other matters such as social system. Halliday generalizes the innumerous functions of language into three abstract meta-functions, namely ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function. (1) Ideational function: The function of the language is to express

the speakers experience of the real world, including the inner world of his own consciousness and logical relations among different matters. It is realized by the system of transitivity; (2) Interpersonal function: The function to express the authors identity, attitude, motivation and his ability of judgment. Being directly involved in position and opinion, it is a shortcut to carry out the ideology; (3) Textual function: The function of making links between itself and the features of the situation in which it is used. Generally speaking, the linguists of CDA connect language forms with all these functions, especially by applying the methods of transitivity, modality, classification, nominalization, passivation and quotation in line with the specific characteristics of discourse. From which we can conclude that language is not to allege of transparency but to control the understanding of the audiences with their own opinions on purpose or not. The focus of CDA is not only laid on discourse itself but on historical and social context. 4. The Critical Discourse Analysis of a report on Barack Obama This paper concentrates on a report with the title of Barack Obama for president from The New York Times (2008). When Barack Obama was born in 1961, many states had laws in their books on enforced segregation, banned mixed-race union like that of their parents and restricted voting rights. This year American can claim more credibly than any other western country to have at last become politically color-blind by launching a black president candidate to the worlds political center stage. The media of course will not miss this great opportunity to create or participate in the magnitude of the American or even the world history by offering overwhelming reports on Obama. The New York Times is one of the most famous United States media serves as the mouthpiece of the Americans politics. The way Obama was presented or portrayed by it is of great influence to the audiences. With this advantage, The New York Times carries its tool to make the audiences believe that Obama is the right choice for the new president. This paper will look into this piece of report and expound its intention from the