عنوان

Government and Press in Malaysia

Number

LA114804

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Government and Press in Malaysia

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Clare L. Boulanger

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

In Malaysia, the government-controlled mainstream newspapers present a version of reality in which the ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional, stands in diametric contrast to its opposition. In press accounts, the Barisan is moderate while the opposition is extremist; the Barisan can guarantee harmony between ethnic groups while an opposition government would unleash the forces of ethnic conflict, and so on. Conveyed along with this study in contrasts is a more subtle, but no less politically useful, vision of the Malaysian social order as a productive arrangement between two inalienable categories of people: those who rule, and those who must be ruled. The press construction of reality thus mediates between the ideal of democracy, which Malaysia officially upholds, and the elitism that is the hallmark of a class society.

Date of Publication

1993

Physical description

54-66

Title

Journal of Asian and African Studies

Volume Number

28/1-2

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5217

Subject Term

African Studies

Subject Term

General

Clare L. Boulanger

Call Number

10.1163/156852193X00415

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

a

Y