Asian media and elections: Frameworks in human rights and media systems

Tay, Simon S. C.; George, Cherian

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“…It is simply bad journalism, and, unfortunately, in many parts of the world, this is what the audience is accustomed to. What is regarded as a good story by the Asian media is probably not much different from what is regarded as a good story by their Western counterparts (Tay & George, 1996).…”

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An Asian Voice? A Comparative Study of Channel News Asia and CNN

Natarajan

Huang

2003

Journal of Communication

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This study examined the claim that Asian journalism is essentially different from Western journalism through a comparative study of Channel News Asia (CNA), an international news channel operated by a Singapore company, and CNN. It analyzed the news bulletins aired by the 2 stations in their special news programs on Asia during 4 constructed weeks over a 6‐month period in 2000. The results show that despite its objective of presenting an Asian perspective in its newscasts, CNA is not significantly different from CNN. Both stations tend to focus on crises and conflicts in their news coverage of Asia. The findings indicate that being Asian does not automatically enable Asian journalists and media to present news about Asia in a way significantly different from their Western counterparts.

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“…Similarly, there is great diversity among the media systems of the region, ranging from the authoritarian systems of China, Myanmar, and Vietnam to the Western-style journalistic systems of India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines (Tay & George, 1996). Such diversity makes it impossible for any consensus on defining Asian journalistic values.…”

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An Asian Voice? A Comparative Study of Channel News Asia and CNN

Natarajan

Huang

2003

Journal of Communication

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“…The discussion on development journalism, or what Loo labeled as 'compliant journalism' (p. 14) cannot be divorced from the idea of so-called 'Asian values' (see Hsiung, 1985;Tay & George, 1996;Wong, 2004), the elements of which include 'family above self, community above individual, constructive engagement as opposed to confrontation', and which rests on the 'consensusseeking instinct' (Wong, 2004, p.27). The governments in Southeast Asia that embrace the development journalism approach are, not surprisingly, also the ones that espouse the value of consensus as the core of national ideology.…”

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Mostly 'men in suits': The ASEAN summit and integration as news in Southeast Asia

Estella

Paz

2019

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This article is a preliminary examination of how Southeast Asian media frame the regional integration of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a news topic. Without grassroots engagement, the ASEAN integration will inevitably fall short of its grand objectives, and crucial to building grassroots engagement is media coverage capable of building audience interest and appreciation. Based on articles published during the major ASEAN summit events in 2018, the authors identified resonant themes in the reportage and discussed these vis-à-vis the documented character of the different media environments in the region. It was found that the axis of the reportage is the declarations and actions of the heads of state, with very few human interest and context-building stories that would have built audience engagement in what is otherwise an affair revolving around 'men in suits'. Moreover, the journalistic emphasis on consensus and state initiatives reflects continuing adherence to the tenets of the development journalism framework, but this can also be interpreted as the dominance of 'prominence' as a news value (i.e. stories are framed according to the gestures of prominent individuals). These findings call attention to the need for re-thinking reportage on potentially high-stake phenomena such as the ASEAN integration.

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“…Interestingly, the station’s top management has been cited as having difficulties defining what constitutes an ‘Asian perspective’, offering only that it is a perspective that comes from ‘knowing Asia intimately’ (Natarajan and Hao, 2003). Given the heterogeneity of the region and the diversity of the media systems present within it (Tay and George, 1996), it is hard, even among Asian countries, to reach a consensus on what this ‘Asian perspective’ might be. About a decade after its establishment, Channel NewsAsia spokesperson Han Chuan Quee (2008) attempted to sum up the definition of this concept, pointing out that Channel NewsAsia has been able to provide ‘Asian points of view to global developments’ by featuring, for example, the responses of different Asian countries to the US presidential elections in its newscasts.…”

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Assessing the potential of Channel NewsAsia as the next ‘Al Jazeera’: A comparative discourse analysis of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC

2013

Global Media and Communication

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In the last decade, Western news organizations such as CNN and the BBC have been increasingly upstaged by satellite news services from the global South. The Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, has emerged as a prime example of a global media contra-flow that has been able to give its region a voice in the international news arena. At a time when developments like the global economic crisis have called for greater checks and balances on Western governments and corporations, this paper takes a critical look at an increasingly prominent news player in the fast-growing developing region of East Asia, Channel NewsAsia, to ascertain if it is likely to rise up the ranks to the level of Al Jazeera. A critical discourse analysis comparing the coverage of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC’s most salient stories, however, shows that the Singapore-based station falls short in its claim to ‘provide Asian perspectives’ because it is constrained by political-economic factors to operate within an authoritarian developmental news model.

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Asian media and elections: Frameworks in human rights and media systems

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

An Asian Voice? A Comparative Study of Channel News Asia and CNN

An Asian Voice? A Comparative Study of Channel News Asia and CNN

Mostly 'men in suits': The ASEAN summit and integration as news in Southeast Asia

Assessing the potential of Channel NewsAsia as the next ‘Al Jazeera’: A comparative discourse analysis of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC

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