‘Stranger in the Dark’ : a comparative analysis of the reporting of rape cases against minors in Malay and English newspapers in Brunei and Malaysia
Journalists of Malay and English newspapers from Brunei and Malaysia are found to adopt different stances in terms of their inclusion of detail and their level of involvement or detachment in crime and accident reports. This study combines an analysis of online news reports of rape cases with int...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17604/1/22922-82953-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17604/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1098 |
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| Summary: | Journalists of Malay and English newspapers from Brunei and Malaysia are found to adopt
different stances in terms of their inclusion of detail and their level of involvement or
detachment in crime and accident reports. This study combines an analysis of online news
reports of rape cases with interview data from journalists and editors of Malay and English
newspapers in Brunei and Malaysia. Our original hypothesis is that Malay news reports
would demonstrate a more restrained approach to crime and accident news compared to
English news stories. Four parallel pairs of rape stories from four newspapers were analysed
using Fairclough’s (1995) framework and van Leeuwen’s (2008) representation of social
actors and social action approach. Critical case purposive sampling method was used to
collect the news stories. The findings reveal clear differences in how rape cases are reported
by the Malay newspapers vis-à-vis their English counterparts, with reports in the Malaysian
Malay paper, for example, being longer and containing more details of the crimes while the
opposite is found in the Bruneian Malay paper. Our findings suggest that differences in the
reporting of rape cases are not just due to linguistic differences but are culturally,
ideologically and politically situated. |
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