How the nature of newspaper influence the Sexuality Merdeka issue

Sexuality Merdeka has been holding the festival annually since 2008, it is a movement that fights for an equal rights for the homosexual and transsexual had been banned by the government this year’s celebration which sparked a controversy.

Compare this news with Malay Mail, The Star had only report on the surface coverage of the sexuality merdeka banned and it is slightly more focused on press conference held by police. Malay Mail for its part tends to offer more on greater coverage to the movement, provide more perspective for the reader. But they are actually more alike than you would think and they do share a number of similarities.

One of the similarity is both of these newspaper contain police statement regarding on received many protests from non-governmental organizations, including Islamic and non-Islamic organizations, the police will take action to prevent any function relating to the program and police have identified and would call everyone involved to record their statements.

While there are a number of distinct differences between the two, along with the police statement, Malay Mail had interview the co-founder of the group and also the religious groups’ opinions. To get the participants’ reaction on the police ban, the Malays Mail visited the exhibition area at the Central Market Annexe which tell readers what happened next after the festival being banned. The Star only covered the police perspective.

            Resulted showing the nature of newspaper will create distinct differences while cover the same press conference. The Star is a business newspaper, which makes it goes straight to the point in this issue. Malay Mail is ‘the paper that cares’, it concerns about people livelihood that make Malay Mail carried more content about this issue.

Reference

AIZAT, & ANDREW. (2011, November 4). Festival stopped. The Malay Mail. 

      Retrieved from http://www.mmail.com.my/content/85680-festival-stopped 

Seksualiti Merdeka movement festival banned. (2011, November 3). TheStar Online.      

      Retrieved from http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/

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Reported by,

Kok Hua Hui      09UJB00070

Neo Yee Feng    08UJB06424

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Wee Lin Tan       09UJB01361