Blog 1 Media Control in Malaysia.

Hello everyone. Today I'm going to talk something about Media Control in Malaysia.

In Malaysia, the mainstream media is control by some political parties and heavily regulated by government. Some private sector and company also control few media such as BERJAYA company. This company own some of the media. These private sector and political parties control the media by limiting what they present out what information  to let citizen to know about what happen. For example, what happen these days is the MH370 plane crash. The government and political parties control and limit the news to let citizens know. The media company such as radio station, newspaper, television channel, astro channel always report the news that their owner want them to report. For example, the MH370 airplane news is con trol by the goverment. The citizen only know the news the goverment want them to know. Apart from that,The Utusan  Melayu Group, which is owned by UMNO, publishes three Malay language dailies and has strong ties to former Prime Minister Mahathir’s party. The major English newspaper, The Star and New Straits Times (NST) is also owned by the political parties. The Star is owned by MCA and New Straits Times is owned by UMNO. Besides The Star newspaper, MCA also controls four other significant media press companies – Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pau, China Press, and Guang Ming Daily.


Reference :http://mediainmalaysia.blogspot.com/2008/11/ownership-of-traditional-media-by.html