WEEK 5_TASK
Write a short essay of about 400 words about the below stated issue: news and you, again.
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, newspaper radio and
others. Many media outlets are either owned the government of Malaysia for
example Bernama- newspaper or owned by components parties of Barisan Nasional
for example the Media Prima group. Stated owned RTM operates two free-to-air
terrestrial local television channels licensed to broadcast in Malaysia, as
well as 32 radio channels nationwide. Meanwhile, Media Prima is the parent
company of 8tv, tv3, tv7, tv9 channels and Fly FM, One FM, Hot FM radio
channels.
Every day, new issue,
television shows and even radio broadcast are taken away from people viewing and
we can clearly understand that the purpose of news broadcast is to inform
people about the things that happened all the time. Since the conventional
media is so tightly controlled by the government, most of the news of political bias or any
issue that might be intimidate the power of government will be censor and not to publish. Thus, some
of the news that publish in the newspaper or broadcast from the tv might not
believable. This is because they are trying to hide the truth for certain
issues so that we can’t actually know what is going on for the particular case.
For instances, the censoring of news came to public notice during the Bersih3.0
rally to protest about the unfair election laws. Most of the police beating
scene had been edited or remove before publish. Yet, some newspapers try to
miniaturize the news to avoid oppose with the government which might bring the
trouble to themselves.
As a Malaysian, we have the right to get know about
“original” news that happened in our country. The government should not control
the freedom of the citizen to thinking well as voice out their opinion. Despite
the news had been controlled, but our citizen have others avenue to find out the
original news which is –internet. Due to the censor issue about the Bersig3.0,
people starting trusted the news publishes on internet rather than newspaper or
tv news because the news do not control by anyone. For young generation, they
even do not read any newspaper or watch tv news but they still can get the
information of news through Facebook, twitter, Youtube and etc. As a conclude,
who owns the newspaper and tv station will not be change the mind of people
thinking. In addition, the news nowadays is transparency on Internet and
citizen are smart making judgement or decision.
reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Televisyen_Malaysia
reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Televisyen_Malaysia
(28 November 2012)
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