Week 5 : Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?

       Who owns newspapers and TV stations in my home country? Based on my research and from the Wikipedia, I'm ensuring that newspapers and television in Malaysia are owned directly by the government of Malaysia or component parties of the Barisan National coalition government such as the Media Prima group. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Malaysia) Why do I say so? Because Media Prima is a bigger company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia which controls the equity interests in television and newspaper. The television releases that been control by the Media Prima are TV3, 8TV, ntv7 and TV9 and the newspaper that been control too by the Media Prima are New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Harian Metro. 

        Media Prima can be listed as important to my country as it is the source of transmission of information to the community via newspapers and television. Manifestly and undoubtedly, no links or sources of information dissemination, community would certainly left behind much and what more definite, the people in my home country would be become dying generation in the field of scholarly as newspapers and television are the media who publishes all sorts of information that may be beneficial to our daily life to ensuring that we are definitely not left behind out the latest development and issues of improving knowledge. We would discover current news events and overseas news of economic, political, social and others. Therefore, it is essential for us to know that the newspaper and television in Malaysia owned by whom since both media is a major source for the public obtain information and news that are happening around them for what deliver news and information that is disseminated the mainstream media, people will believes that the news is communicated and is shown to be true longer valid.

        Others than that, I think this has an impact on the news that I heard was because it may assist me to be more believe and continues to support this media to enhance progress. For example, the news that obviously we are know from the original source where it came from, people would undoubtedly not feel worry to read and watch the news that may give the authentic truth on all issues. In fact, the government that owns newspapers and broadcast television could formed the basis of more effective media that the programs on television and in print media reports may be produced in such a way so that they did not cause people to hate the government authorities as for knowing what is happening in our country due to they know where to hate or not and which is the true or false. Therefore, we must know the all things based from the original source to make life easier for us.

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Date : 25/11/2012

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