Pemaparan Akhbar, Pandangan Wartawan Dan Penduduk : Kajian Kes Projek Marina, Pulau Tioman
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2005-06
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Suk Fen, Hon
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This research aims to examine the coverage of Marina project, Tioman Island in
several local newspapers. This research also serves to study the opinion of the
residents in Kampong Tekek, the , representative from non-government
organization and the journalists regarding the coverage of the marina project.
The methods used in this research include content analysis based on Allan
Bell's theoretiCal framework and discourse analysis. Meanwhile, interview and
focus group interviews have been used to gather the opinions of the
respondents. The results of this study supported part of the model
recommended by Downs, 1972 (Cited in Campbell, 1999). The study has
revealed the coverage of the Marina project, Tioman was limited and that there
were major challenges to environment reporting in Malaysia. It is argued that
the coverage of the Marina project needs to be improved in terms of its quantity
and quality. The result of the content analysis, interview with the journalists and
residents has enabled the researcher to identify that the political factor was
actually an important element in influencing the coverage of certain environment
issues in Malaysia. This research supported the opinion of Hansen (1991) that
the government was the major source for environmental news and others
sources were largely marginalized. By way of conclusion, the dissertation
argues that the involvement of the public and environment interest groups is
important in pushing the agenda on environment journalism to the core of the
media work.
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Language and Literature , Communication, Mass media