This work aims at how Victory News actually played a role in the propaganda of the dominant elite, especially related to ownership structure during the 2018 TT Governor election. In other words, tracing local media propaganda, this study controls which actors or groups are Victory News as well as who are the oppressed marginal groups who do not. access to the media system. Adopting an instrumentalist political economy perspective, the consequences of this propaganda will be seen through five filters in the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model, namely media, advertising revenue, news sources, 'flak' as a means of disciplining the media and ideology as a control mechanism. Using a qualitative approach, the findings of this study show that the different accesses of the elite to the media are responsible for producing different access to news reporting structures. This access results in the following five filters: 1.) Media ownership: News of Victory, the face of the national and local elite kongsi in NTT; 2.) Advertising as a source of income for the News of Victory; 3.) Elite as the main news source; 4.) 'Flak' or criticism as a means of disciplining the media and 5.) Pancasila ideology as a national control mechanism.