Week 5 - individual task

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

There are a numerous of newspapers and TV station in Malaysia which are the place of collection date and spread the message to everyone. Newspapers and Tv station will be provide the latest news for people to get themselves updated which happened around their country. In Malaysia, there are over 30 newspapers published mainly in Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil. The most prominent newspapers include The Star, theSun, Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, Sin Chew Jit Poh and Nanyang Siang Pau.

Newspapers Company in Malaysia can be divided into 2 types which is government and private company. For example, The Star is an English-language and it is tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia. The star is owned by the government of Malaysia that published by Star Publications Berhad. The Star is majority-owned by the Malaysian Chinese Association which is also the second-largest party in the ruling Barisan Nasional alliance. Besides that, Sin Chew Daily is the leading Chinese-language newspaper in Malaysia that owned by the private company which is Sin Chew Media Corporation Berhad.

According to the web source Wikipedia, There are three Tv channel in Malaysia are government public-owned by Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and the two television channels terrestrial free-to-air TV1 and TV2 while TV Alhijrah are public government-owner by Al Hijrah Media Corporation. Furthermore, the channel of TV3,NTV7, 8TV and TV9 are private commercial-owned by Media Prima. Worldview Broadcasting Channel are private commercial-owned by Worldview Broadcasting Channel (Malaysia) Sendirian Berhad and it also private commercial-owned by Media Citra Bherhad. Other than that, Astro is one of the popular Tv station Company in Malaysia. Astro is owned and operated by Astro Television Network System Sdn Bhd where fully owned subsidiary of Astro Malaysia Holdings Sdn Bhd that owned by Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd. 

            People have the right to choose to believe the news whether is true or not. For me, I believed that the news comes from newspaper and TV is trustworthy compare to internet source. This is because newspaper and TV news reported have to go under investigation of a subject, performs research and conducts interviews to gather information before they spread out the message to the audience. So, the information that the reports gather are trustworthy and not a creation from somebody imagination. Besides that, the news spread out from the internet we cannot fully trust it because it add a lot of non-sense that not related to the thing. But the news from the official newspaper’s website likes The Stars online and the sun online can believe because it gives the news that comes with the proofs.

For conclusion, News can be provides in many types of media, I believe that most of the people will prefer newspaper and TV more than other sources because it is still the best way that the fact of news we can trust but not the news which have been modified and spread around the internet.