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ID142078
Title ProperStrategic censorship in a hybrid authoritarian regime? differential bias in Malaysia's online and print media
LanguageENG
AuthorAbbott, Jason ;  Givens, John Wagner
Summary / Abstract (Note)We analyze and compare three separate efforts to code bias in Malaysia's media and find strong empirical evidence of an ongoing and profound progovernment bias in coverage. We also find, however, significant variation in bias between different types of news outlets. While Malay and Anglophone sources tended to be strongly progovernment, Chinese-language and online outlets were far more impartial. We demonstrate that both the general bias and the variation in it are largely the result of two factors: (1) government censorship and (2) ownership structures that link many major outlets to the ruling coalition. These findings provide a detailed view of the struggle for media independence in a less-than-democratic regime and supply insight into media bias across both authoritarian and democratic regimes in Asia, as well as outside it.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of East Asian Studies Vol. 15, No.3; Sep/Dec 2015: p.455-478
Journal SourceJournal of East Asian Studies Vol: 15 No 3
Key WordsMalaysia ;  Elections ;  Newspapers ;  Censorship ;  Electoral Authoritarianism ;  New Media ;  Political Bias


 
 
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