【庄一敬】全民电影要怎样从一股营销热潮中、从人们对拍电影的猎奇与围观中,转化成不仅是温馨感动的人民群像,这可能是大马中文电影要思考的难题了。更重要的是,如今贺岁片与它的票房神话似乎奠定了我国中文电影的必胜逻辑,然而,高票房诱惑是很危险的,电影的发展千万不得因此而固化,这将会给本土电影的类型化发展制造了无形的障碍。Continue Reading

【庄迪澎】张晓卿为讨好中南海而撤换《明报》总编辑,难道不担心再挫《明报》公信力,进而影响业绩吗?就“资本家-控制媒体-建立政商人脉-累积资本”模式而言,媒体业务有盈利固然最好,但其首要职能并非盈利,而是作为与权力精英交换利益的筹码或工具;是以,只要其服务的终极利益所需,媒体业务随时可以“壮士断臂”以保大局。更何况,相对于张晓卿在中国的其他利益,香港《明报》简直微不足道。Continue Reading

【冯建三】学院知识分子的研究成果、意见或言论,往往成为大众媒介从业人员的直接或间接引述的对象。……关于政治经济与社会文化等等事件的报道,“专家学者”往往仅次于政府官员或工商界人士,是媒体意见来源的大宗。……不过,媒体占据的位置,愈来愈具有主导的能耐;透过大众媒介而与大众接触的主动权,已经是越来越远离了学院知识分子之手。Continue Reading

【东方日报】独立新闻中心在第13届全国大选结束后,约访新闻编辑与记者,儼然发现曾有政治人物向记者派钱及提供各种好处。「这就好像癌症那样,你可能有,或者你知道其他人有。这会对他们有不良影响,甚至有些人,面对这样的情形,就崩溃了。」Continue Reading

【庄迪澎】发行量开始走下坡,对《星洲日报》主管固然是个打击,但是把世华媒体旗下中文报章的发行量一并比对,马上就能发现《星洲日报》主管遭逢另一个更大的打击:自2010年以降,世华媒体的总发行量几乎是靠《中国报》支撑。Continue Reading

【庄迪澎】《林吉祥:可与国阵组织联合政府》的错误,不是主题字体太大、副题字体太小,更不是报纸“折起来放在报摊时只看到大标题,而没有看到副题”。这个头条的错误,是它错误地诠释和转述林吉祥的立场,把林吉祥的“否定”变成“肯定”。与其说误导了读者,不如说是扭曲原意的专业败坏!Continue Reading

“监督监督者(Watching the Watchdog)――第13届大选媒体监督计划”是由诺丁汉大学马来西亚分校传播与文化研究中心、独立新闻中心、全国廉正选举机构及默迪卡民调中心联合展开的媒体监督计划,由Dr Tessa J. Houghton及Zaharom Nain教授主持。此媒体监督计划监督东西马29种媒体的大选报道,包括印刷媒体、电视和网络媒体,而且涵盖四种语文(英文、马来文、中文和淡米尔文)。Continue Reading

【媒体与大选文献回顾/Kim-Hui Lim, Wai-Mun Har】This study analyzes the rhetorical strategy of using the emotion of fear as a political tool in the 11th Malaysia General Election campaign. The three-prong objectives of this study are to analyze the main themes and issues used to address this tactic of fear, the general perceptions that non-Moslems in Malaysia have of the concept of Islamic state as a symbol of fear and rhetorical strategies used to provoke this fear. The findings concluded that the National Front party (Barisan National, BN) used the fear factor effectively in its campaign. This situation is further enhanced by the strong control of BN over the Malaysian media in addition to the character of Chinese voters who generally prefer not to leave their current comfort zone and are afraid of an Islamic state.Continue Reading

【媒体与大选文献回顾/Wong Kok Keong】It was rather cynical of the BN to rely on the lack of internet penetration to win votes in the hinterland. Even the mainstream media were in tacit agreement with the mentality. It was as though the BN was happy to win votes from Malaysians kept in the dark by being fed only their propaganda through the mainstream media. But that has been shown to work only up to a point.Continue Reading

【媒体与大选文献回顾/Wong Kok Keong】The research examined three areas – news report, opinions (editorials, comments, columns) and letters to the editors – to determine how many items were focused or positive on the National Front (NF) and the Alternative Front (AF); negative on the NF and AF; balanced towards both; and non-party related (NPR). It examined the coverage of The New Straits Times, The Star and The Sun from 12 to 29 November 1999.Continue Reading

【媒体与大选文献回顾/傅向红】统计结果显示七家报社的一致给予执政党更多曝光机会,不同语文源流的报纸偏颇指数有差异,但同语文源流报社的偏颇指数却非常接近。七家报社一致让执政党有更多曝光机会,或许可以视为马来西亚高压政治结构和诸多限制言论自由之法令的产物,但是不同报社之间的偏颇指数有高低之别,似乎只能从个别报社科层制之松散严密程度及其专业能力来解释,这点有赖未来更多的把关人研究提供详尽有力的解释。Continue Reading