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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
e) The fifth issue which truly rattled the Abdullah’s administration was in
connection with the Anwar Ibrahim’s disclosure in September 2007 about the
video of V.K. Lingam who was said to be responsible for the arrangement in
the appointment Chief Justice of the nation. This had resulted in the formation
of Commission of Royal Inquiry.
BLOG AND RESEARCH ON GENERAL ELECTION – CASE IN 2008
Beginning from what that had been detailed by Gramsci and also re-alignment of the
developments of blog in Malaysia, it obviously indicated that counter – hegemony had a hand in it.
Eventhough there existed a kind of control over the prime flow of mass media, nevertheless developments
relating to the blogs phenomena in Malaysia testified otherwise. According to the researches carried out by
Nazri dan Shuhaimee (2008) in the 12 th general election following the government’s tight control over the
media institution and also lack of opportunity given to the opposition had resulted that most of the blogs
were fully being used as in table 7.
Table 7: Total Blog In Accordance To The Political Orientation
Orientation F (%)
1. Supporting The Government
2. Not Supporting The
Government
(Critical Offensive)
3. Indipendent (Critical – Free)
Source: Nazri dan Shuhaimee, 2008:63
If a close scrutiny and detailed explanation were carried on the whole blog throughout the election,
the trend of development was very alarming. This was evidenced from the total of 193 blogs taken as
sample about 165 were categorised as not supportive. From 165 taken, 114 were not supporting bringing
the figure to 59.1% whereas the excess balance remained neutral – critical totalling 20.4%. This had far
exceeded the blog which supported the government totalling 28 bringing to 14.5% only. The schedule
below (Table 8) clearly indicates the figures based from various issues stated before which also related to
Abdullah Badawi that acquired place in the Malaysia’s blogsphere during the general election in 2008.
76
28
114
51
14.5
59.1
26.4