Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your
country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?
The media of Malaysia include television, radio, newspapers, and
web-based media such as bloggers. Many media outlets are either owned directly
by the government of Malaysia (e.g. Bernama) or owned by component parties of
the Barisan Nasional coalition government (e.g. the Media Prima group, which is
owned by the United Malays National Organisation).
Since conventional media is so tightly controlled by the
government, Malaysia has a lively alternative media scene, chracterised by such
news portals as Malaysiakini and The Malaysian Insider which take advantage of
the government's pledge not to censor the Internet despite its stranglehold on
most mass media outlets.
Do you think this has an effect on the news that
you hear?
Yes, because the government had control
every media in Malaysia. The news and information are all had been filter by
the government. The news from the internet is totally different from the newspaper
and TV news.
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