Media Freedom In Malaysia Journal

First it discusses the concept of freedom of the press and determines which theories libertarian social responsibility or authoritarian are suitable in the context of analysing the real situation of media freedom in malaysia.

Media freedom in malaysia journal. In 2015 after the wall street journal broke a story that alleged 700 million from a state fund had gone into najib s personal bank account malaysia clamped down on the media s ability to report it. A public forum has been organised by suaram penang and penang chinese newspaper reporters and photographers association pewaju in conjunction with world press freedom day on may 8 2012. The mass media however began to come into being only in the 1830s with the penny press lichtenberg 1987. The concept of media freedom developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the united states us and europe.

Academia edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. 21 printing presses and publications act 1984 act 301. This article discusses the contemporary issue of media freedom in malaysia. As per the court of appeal in utusan melayu m bhd v dato sri diraja hj adnan bin hj yaakob 2016 5 mlj 56 at p 69.

This article will provide an outline of the malaysian media freedom movement from reformasi in 1998 until today. June 23 the human rights commission of malaysia suhakam wishes to express its concerns on the actions by the police using specific laws against activists politicians journalists and human rights defenders for exercising their freedom of expression. It also went after the few outlets such as malaysiakini and the malaysia insider that had defied the crackdown. 20 randhawa et al 2005 freedom of expression and the media in malaysia.

Research for this article includes testimony from those journalists and activists who attempted to implement reform in the media industry including detailing reported instances of direct editorial intervention. As an outcome of the reformasi movement in the early 2000s the bn government did not renew the permits of magazines including detik tamadun wasilah and a newspaper eksklusif for criticizing the government over the citizen s and. Malaysia s freedom of the press is derived from the freedom of speech. Media freedom the mass media includes radio television magazines newspapers and the internet3.

The wider effects of the pppa on freedom of expression and press the media and the development of civil society in malaysia have been far reaching. Part of a series of baseline studies on seven south east asian countries 6.