Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?
In Malaysia, newspaper and television are known as a very common media to deliver news to the public. Even though the internet has almost surpassed television as the main source of national and international news for 16 to 29-year-old young people, TV, radio and newspaper are still considered the major media for effective marketing off-line. Malaysia have 6 main free TV channels, which are TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7, 8TV and Channel 9. Somehow, TV1 and TV2 are owned by government. Both channels is outdated and old style. Effort is made to change the image of both station but unfortunately failed. So, both channels have less audience. While NTV7, TV3, 8TV and Channel 9 are under same corporation. All of them is more updated and have a bigger audience group.
Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear? My answer is yes, because it has affected most of us on receiving the real news. After having research of the information found around the internet, I'm surprised by the results.
Most of the mainstream media are sharing or controlled by the same owner. That's mean that the information's that we heard and watched from the radio to television and the newspaper are all being filtered down to the same kind of altered or distorted information's Media imperialism is one of the most common governing method that you can see in any country because it can be used to control the people in the country to think what the government wanted them to think about. For this reason, most of the sensitive issues are being censored and we won't get the chance to see them in the mainstream media and we can only hear this from the alternative media which is the Internet.
Malaysia has some of the toughest censorship laws in the world. The authorities exert substantial control over the media and can impose restrictions in the name of national security. The government is keen to insulate the largely-Muslim population from what it considers harmful foreign influences. News is subject to censorship, entertainment shows and music videos regularly fall foul of the censors, and scenes featuring swearing and kissing are routinely removed.
In conclusion, we should be always beware that we can't only relying on one source of the information, it's always a good practice to have two to three reliable source for the serious issues before we can come to our own conclusion to the news that we are concerned about.
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