A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin

Achieving media pluralism is at the heart of the public interest policy in a democratic society (Just, 2009). It establishes the tenets of having different independent media owners with the availability of a variety range of contents regardless of patterns of demand (Doyle, 2002). The communications...

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Main Authors:	Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor, Mazlina, Hamin, Zaiton
Format:	Student Project
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Law 2011
Subjects:	Comparative law. International uniform Law Technology and law
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28417/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28417/1/28417.pdf

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spelling	uitm-284172020-02-28T01:32:22Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28417/ A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor, Mazlina Hamin, Zaiton Comparative law. International uniform Law Technology and law Achieving media pluralism is at the heart of the public interest policy in a democratic society (Just, 2009). It establishes the tenets of having different independent media owners with the availability of a variety range of contents regardless of patterns of demand (Doyle, 2002). The communications and multimedia law is expected to advance these public policy objectives via the structural regulation (ownership control), behavioral regulation (content control) and/or technical regulation (transmission control). This research argues that Malaysia have taken a light and a relatively passive approach in addressing the issue of media pluralism via the communications and multimedia law. The existence of one Malaysian public listed company, Media Prima Berhad owning majority of the free-to-air commercial television stations nationwide i.e TV3, 8TV, ntv7 and Channel 9, raised the concern of the formation of one gigantic conglomerate controlling majority of the market. This development is not in line with the principle of media pluralism. Faculty of Law 2011-11 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/28417/1/28417.pdf Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor, Mazlina and Hamin, Zaiton (2011) A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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description	Achieving media pluralism is at the heart of the public interest policy in a democratic society (Just, 2009). It establishes the tenets of having different independent media owners with the availability of a variety range of contents regardless of patterns of demand (Doyle, 2002). The communications and multimedia law is expected to advance these public policy objectives via the structural regulation (ownership control), behavioral regulation (content control) and/or technical regulation (transmission control). This research argues that Malaysia have taken a light and a relatively passive approach in addressing the issue of media pluralism via the communications and multimedia law. The existence of one Malaysian public listed company, Media Prima Berhad owning majority of the free-to-air commercial television stations nationwide i.e TV3, 8TV, ntv7 and Channel 9, raised the concern of the formation of one gigantic conglomerate controlling majority of the market. This development is not in line with the principle of media pluralism.
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author	Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor, Mazlina Hamin, Zaiton
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title	A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin
title_short	A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin
title_full	A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin
title_fullStr	A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin
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