On May 28, 2020, Irwan Prayitno, as the Governor of West Sumatra, sent a letter to the Ministry of Communication and Information of the Republic of Indonesia through the Director-General of Informatics Applications Jakarta, Indonesia. The letter contains the subject of the removal of the gospel application in the Minangkabau language. The news discourse receives attention from the Tagar.Id mass media. However, Tagar.Id journalists tends to report the figure of Irwan Prayitno rather than the submitted text or letter. This tendency indicates a separate view for Tagar.Id journalists in writing the figure of Irwan Prayitno as the Governor of West Sumatra through the socio-cultural realities. Therefore, this study aims to review and find out how the social cognition of Tagar.Id journalists in reporting the figure of Irwan Prayitno that is presented in the news text. Thus, the author uses van Dijk's critical discourse analysis approach that focuses on elements of social cognition. Van Dijk (1997) explains that the features of social cognition are divided into four schemes, namely the person scheme, self scheme, role scheme, and event scheme. This study uses a qualitative approach that utilizes linguistic data to see that this research raises linguistic aspects in its application. Based on the data findings, the social schema analysis of Irwan Prayitno shows a connection between the reality of the Minangkabau socio-cultural aspects with the profile or life history of Irwan Prayitno.