Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia

Strategic news is published news with an implied agenda without explaining the truth. Nowadays, most media are more comfortable playing tug of war in their writing than telling the truth because of the news framing process. The process of generating strategic news is done by journalists and editors...

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Main Authors: Azahar Kasim, Adibah Ismail, Sazali Abd Wahab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11745/
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spelling ukm-117452018-06-09T22:18:12Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11745/ Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia Azahar Kasim, Adibah Ismail, Sazali Abd Wahab, Strategic news is published news with an implied agenda without explaining the truth. Nowadays, most media are more comfortable playing tug of war in their writing than telling the truth because of the news framing process. The process of generating strategic news is done by journalists and editors of a media organization by conducting the franchise process first to enable them to reach the target audience. Framing news is the cause for the reader's shift of understanding of news framed by the newspaper until the community's perception has been successfully changed. This study utilizes a qualitative method; three personality and media experts were interviewed to obtain relevant data regarding media agenda, framing and strategic news. The informants were from media conglomerates in Malaysia – Media Prima, Bernama TV and former Berita Harian Group Editor-in-Chief. The exploration of media practioner perspectives on news writing and framing allowed the researcher to delve into fundamental questions in journalism, specifically in the fragment of journalism ethics. The findings show that the framing of an issue was both deliberate and unintentional. Strategic news is the result of the interconnections between media agenda, ethics and journalism, editor responsibility and news framing, and manipulation by the media to advocate the success of the government’s mission and vision. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11745/1/24439-71683-1-PB.pdf Azahar Kasim, and Adibah Ismail, and Sazali Abd Wahab, (2018) Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 34 (1). pp. 330-344. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1075
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description Strategic news is published news with an implied agenda without explaining the truth. Nowadays, most media are more comfortable playing tug of war in their writing than telling the truth because of the news framing process. The process of generating strategic news is done by journalists and editors of a media organization by conducting the franchise process first to enable them to reach the target audience. Framing news is the cause for the reader's shift of understanding of news framed by the newspaper until the community's perception has been successfully changed. This study utilizes a qualitative method; three personality and media experts were interviewed to obtain relevant data regarding media agenda, framing and strategic news. The informants were from media conglomerates in Malaysia – Media Prima, Bernama TV and former Berita Harian Group Editor-in-Chief. The exploration of media practioner perspectives on news writing and framing allowed the researcher to delve into fundamental questions in journalism, specifically in the fragment of journalism ethics. The findings show that the framing of an issue was both deliberate and unintentional. Strategic news is the result of the interconnections between media agenda, ethics and journalism, editor responsibility and news framing, and manipulation by the media to advocate the success of the government’s mission and vision.
format Article
author Azahar Kasim,
Adibah Ismail,
Sazali Abd Wahab,
spellingShingle Azahar Kasim,
Adibah Ismail,
Sazali Abd Wahab,
Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia
author_facet Azahar Kasim,
Adibah Ismail,
Sazali Abd Wahab,
author_sort Azahar Kasim,
title Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia
title_short Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia
title_full Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia
title_fullStr Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in Malaysia
title_sort framing strategic news from the perspective of media organizations in malaysia
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11745/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11745/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11745/1/24439-71683-1-PB.pdf
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