Media Restriction

All countries have their own restrict rules and regulations. Regulations sometimes even happen in a family, schools, company, or industry. However, some of these rules and regulations are set informally. For example, in a family, parents set rules for their kids to restrict them from coming home late. There are also some formal ones like in a company and industries, subordinates actually need to sign a contract during interviews or entering the firm.

In media, there are also some rules and regulations took place. According to Prasad (2008), there will have two main aspect to be concern in the media industries which are ‘1) media laws about the publications of a story which many relate to libel and defamation; 2) media laws about permissible comments on legal proceedings which include contempt of court’.

In a news article written by Yeo (2012), there are many books banned in Malaysia due to some of the restrict rules. He analyse the books in Malaysia and came out with a result of total number of banned books are 1,517. This even includes a book written by a former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir with his book’s name, ‘The Malay Dilemma’. According to The Economist (n.d.), the reason for the book is banned is due to the racism factors. He added some content of the book by saying that the book is about the ‘deals with the relations between the two main races in Malaysia; the so-called indigeneos Malays who formed roughly half the population and the so-called immigrant Chinese who make up a third’. However, when Dr Mahathir takes charge to be the Prime Minister, the book is back on shelf for people to view it.

On the other hand, the factor that affects the media in some countries being published will be the sexuality factor. In some countries, media with sexual content are often being unviewed to the country. As stated by Yeo (2012), the word ‘banned list’ is another way of asking people to read. This is because people often curious; therefore, people will just view it to have a glance.

Reference

Prasad K 2008, ‘Media Law and Ethics: Readings in Communication Regulation’, cyberjournalist.org.in, viewed on 4^th November 2012, <http://cyberjournalist.org.in/medialaw.html>.

The Economist n.d., ‘The hypocritical Malay dilemma… Hypocrisy would be a better word’, malaysia.jbdirectory.com, viewed on 5^th November 2012, <http://malaysia.jbdirectory.com/The_Malay_Dilemma>.

Yeo I, 2012, ‘Interesting Reading: The banned book list’, themalaysianinsider.com, viewed on 4^th November 2012, < http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/books/article_book/interesting-reading-the-banned-books-list/>.