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The media have assumed and reinforced their important role as a legitimate reflection of public interest and opinion. However, the media are peculiarly vulnerable to error of confusing the public interest with their own interest. As a matter of fact, people have increasingly begun to seek the refuge and vindication of litigation. Malaysian media have traditionally focused on nation-building, social cohesion, and " responsible journalism ". This paper aims to examine the operation of libel law on the media in Malaysia. The paper concludes that although there is no mention of press freedom in the Malaysian Federal Constitution, Article 10(1)(a) is assumed to protect press freedom. However, press freedom is not absolute.
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Pacific Journalism Review
Review of Philippine Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists. Manila: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication and International Media Support. 2019. 45 pages. ISBN 9789718502204 A DECADE after the world’s worst atrocity inflicted on journalists in a single event, a remarkable publishing event happened in Manila that could set a trend in the global fight against impunity for the killers of journalists. On the eve of the date marking the massacre of 58 people—including 32 journalists, a broad coalition launched a strategic blueprint for the survival of news workers. I was privileged to be present at this stellar event, the only New Zealand journalist or media academic to be invited to the launch of the Philippine Plan of Action in the Safety of Journalists (PPASJ).
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Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts
In the Philippines, the assault on the press has gone digital. While Filipino journalists continue to face physical, verbal, and legal threats and attacks, cyber-attacks and online harassment/trolling were identified in 2018 as the second worst threat against them, after low wages and poor working conditions, according to the International Federation of Journalists and the Southeast Asia Journalist Unions. Websites of news outlets have also been hacked and taken down. These challenges make the press vulnerable to self-censorship and may even lead to fatal outcomes. This chapter seeks to fill the gap in the literature on the digital types of assault on the Philippine alternative press, focusing on the experience of alternative news media outlets—independent media particularly critical of the government. It explores the range of such threats and attacks and the responses, legal frameworks, and remedies in place that are used to combat dangers of this nature.
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Asia Pacific Media Educator
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Prosiding Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya (KOLITA)
In 2021, the former Minister of Youth and Sports, Roy Suryo reported Eko Kuntadhi and Mazdjo Pray for a defamation case regarding the comments in their YouTube video. The former minister reported that the two had falsely accused him and defamed him regarding the hit-and-run case that he faced with the Indonesian actor Lucky Alamsyah in the same year. However, the case still did not reach any conclusions in 2022. This research then aims to investigate whether the video contains defamation to be considered a criminal case as claimed by the former minister. This study would employ the appraisal framework proposed by Martin and White (2005) in order to analyze the contents of the video, including the comments of Eko Kuntadhi and Mazdjo Pray. To help reach a deeper analysis, the study would also use the intertextuality of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) by Reisigl and Wodak (2009). Both the appraisal and the Discourse-Historical Approach were applied to analyze the utterances mad.
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