Media and the manufacturing of the American president

Petikan www.middleeastmonitor.com - 8/11/2016

In spite of the turmoil that has been engulfing Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, the American presidential elections seem to be attracting lots of media attention.  In global media the race for the White House is turning, as ever, into a media event. Passionate reporters in the west as well as many other parts of the world closely follow the day-to-day developments of the campaign namely the significance of the opinion polls and candidates’ televised debates....LAGI...

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Social media causes some users to rethink their views on an issue

Petikan http://www.pewresearch.org/-7/11/2016

 on social media – as in real life – isn’t always pretty. In an election season marked by partisan animosity, a recent Pew Research Center report found that many social media users describe their political encounters online as stressful and frustrating, and nearly four-in-ten have taken steps to block or minimize the political content they see from other users...LAGI....

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Media Diversity And The 2016 Election: How A Mostly White Press Corps Influences Campaign Coverage

Petikan ibtimes.com - 
African-American female journalist shadowing Republican presidential candidates during the 2012 election cycle, Juana Summers was, at times, the only person of color in the room. But nothing crystallized her minority status more than when one of her white male press corps colleagues asked for an interview, assuming the 27-year-old Missouri native was simply a black voter captivated by a candidate’s stump speech...LAGI...

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Legendary Journalist Dan Rather Just Declared War On Trump & The Media That Enables Him

Petikan http://occupydemocrats.com/  - 2 Jun 2016

Iconic reporter Dan Rather spoke out on Facebook today, encouraging political journalists to use their backbones as well as their keyboards, in covering the neo-fascist presumptive Republican Presidential nominee. The call to action by the former host of the CBS Evening News – which you can see in full below – comes at a time when the entire mainstream news media seems to suddenly have woken from their week ratings party hangovers and decided that in fact, the job of the press is to vet political candidates – get this – while they are still running for office...LAGI...

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Brunei Times announces shutdown

Petikan freemalaysiatoday - 7/11/2016

PETALING JAYA: Brunei Darussalam broadsheet Brunei Times has announced its closure, ten years after its inception in 2006.

The English daily announced on its front page that today’s edition would be its last.

“The Brunei Times no longer has sustainable resources to continue its media and publication operations and the company’s Board of Directors have agreed that the best course of action is to close down the paper,” the front page announcement read...LAGI....

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Bikers in red rough up Star team

Petikan thestar.com.my- 16/10/2016

KUALA SELANGOR: The Star journalists covering the Bersih 5.0 convoy were harassed by a group of anti-Bersih supporters outside a hypermarket here and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned the actions of the group...LAGI....

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Bloomberg TV Malaysia (BTVM) off-air after one year and RM40m investment

From http://www.theedgemarkets.com/ 15.09.2016

KUALA LUMPUR: Bloomberg TV Malaysia (BTVM), the first international business news channel localised for Malaysian audience is going off the air about a year after it made its debut. The business news channel company has seen an investment of over RM40 million since 2014, according to an interview with Michael Chan, chief executive officer of BTVM....LAGI....

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