Media council: The ideological battlefield

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LETTER | The MMC should not be a single entity with one mission, vision and ideology.

of 17 members of the pro-tem committee to set up the Malaysian Media Council might be seen as a good step, but it would also indicate the new challenge among the practitioners of the media fraternity.

This is one of the reasons why the formation of MMC has yet to be materialised when it was first mooted almost 40 years ago. Both of the efforts were swayed away by time because the concept had been viewed as another form of press control. In 2005–2011, the government took numerous initiatives in establishing the MMC by suggesting that the council be co-chaired by the information minister and the home minister and by urging the National Union of Journalists to lead the process.

It is also obvious that some media representative groups succumb to the government’s narratives and dominant ideologies on how the press should support the development agenda.

 

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