The paper aims at examining the representation of the 2015 Greek bailout referendum in a comparable corpus of Greek and English news texts from Greek and British newspapers. The detailed examination of corpus data reveals explicit and implicit aspects of ideology as regards the most important events and actors represented in them. In particular, in Greek news texts the responsibilities for the Greek situation are to some extent attributed to the Greek, but mostly to the European political system, while English texts particularly emphasize the responsibility of Greeks, suggesting that Europe is suffering the consequences of their own political actions and decisions. Thus, the same events may be linguistically represented and interpreted in a number of different ways, from similar to diametrically opposed, depending on the ideological perspective of each newspaper, suggesting the importance of ideology in discourse construction and thus the profound social construction of discourse.