Framing of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) financial scandal by english and chinese newspapers published in Malaysia
The study compared how the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) financial scandal was framed in English and Chinese online newspapers published in Malaysia. Content analysis was conducted for 200 articles for two English newspapers (The Star, 50; Malaysiakini English, 50) and two Chinese newspa...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23823/1/komunikasi_3.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23823/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1644 |
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| Summary: | The study compared how the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) financial scandal was framed in
English and Chinese online newspapers published in Malaysia. Content analysis was conducted for 200
articles for two English newspapers (The Star, 50; Malaysiakini English, 50) and two Chinese
newspapers (Sin Chew Daily, 50; Malaysiakini Chinese, 50). The four newspapers were similar in the
reliance on episodic framing and government sources of information, and the valence of the articles.
Government sources is the opinion leader in 1MDB events but space is given to the voices of the
opposition, foreign entities and the public. The English newspapers and Malaysiakini Chinese have
more articles with a positive valence (46%-56%) in favour of investigations to resolve the financial
corruption case and about 31% of the articles had a negative valence. However, Sin Chew Daily is more
critical of the investigations than the other three newspapers. There are significant differences among
the newspapers in frame dimensions of news headlines. The responsibility frame is used in close to
80% of the 1MDB articles in the Chinese newspapers but only in 40%-50% of the 1MDB articles in the
English newspapers. Instead the English newspapers highlight the economic consequences of 1MDB
and the conflict between individuals and groups, as well as contradictions between rumour and fact.
The findings suggest that framing of controversial high-profile financial corruption case may differ due
to the readership of the English and Chinese newspapers. |
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