Online
journalism is also known as digital journalism is a contemporary form of
journalism where editorial content is distributed via the internet as opposed
to publishing it via print media or broadcast.
It also deliver the information with combination as text, audio, video
and some interactive forms.
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Multi-ethnic
society in Malaysia is the culture of Malaysia that draw the varied culture of
different people of Malaysia. There are three main cultural, which is Malays,
Chinese and India. The many different ethnicity that currently exist in
Malaysia have their own unique and distinctive cultural identities with some
crossover.
Online
journalism is very dangerous to Malaysian of multi-ethnic society because most of
media professionals in Malaysia work in tightly controlled media system.
Apart
from that, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s initially made positive statement
about press freedom. The constitutions
also guarantees freedom of expression under Article 10, but allows for hot of
limitations on this right.
Image from GoogleThe 1984 Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) requires all publishers and printing firms to obtain an annual operations permit and gives the prime minister the authority to revoke licenses at any time without judicial review
Media
in Malaysia is privately owned but the political parties and their investment
companies control all major media companies. The Utusan Melayu Group publishes
three Malay language dailies and has strong ties with ruling coalition. In
addition, the star is owned by the Malaysian Chinese association, a party
affiliated with the ruling coalition. Private interest aligned with the
Malaysian Indian congress control all the Tamil newspapers.
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As
a result there is little critic or dissent and most Malaysian receives news
that are in line with the government’s views.
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For
example, online journalism give bad impact on multi-ethnic in Malaysia is when
Raja Petra Kamaruddin, founder and editor of the website Malaysia Today, was
detained and accused of demeaning Islam in 2008, then released on procedural
grounds. However he was later charged under the 1948 Sedition Act and with
criminal defamation under the penal code and thought to have fled to London to
escape the charges, which many observer consider to be politically motivated.
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This
show that, what journalist write basically related to all ethnic in Malaysia,
so that the news will not harm any of the ethnic. As Malaysia, we not fully
play the press freedom, this is because one of the reason is multi-ethnic
society in Malaysian. As a journalist, we should be aware of the danger of
discrimination in delivering the information to public. Just be neutral in term
of getting information or delivering it.
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