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An overview on Utusan Malaysia

An introduction Utusan Malaysia is a Malaysian newspaper daily with its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was founded on May 29, 1939. Utusan Malaysia translates to En lish as !Malaysian Courier". #his newspaper $omes in %oth Malay and En lish Lan ua e and ser&es as an unoffi$ial spo'esman for the United Malays (ational )r ani*ation whi$h is the rulin party and the owner. Initially in 1939 the newspaper was pu%lished as the Utusan Malayu. +%dul ,ahim Ka-ai, one of the fathers of this newspaper daily was du%%ed !.ather of Malay /ournalism". #he pu%li$ation was temporarily withheld when /apan o$$upied Malaya and 0in apore. #he headquarters whi$h presently reside in Kuala Lumpur was initially lo$ated in 1e$il 0treet. In the year of 1921 the wor'ers mounted a stri'e a ainst the fa$t that the rulin party United Malays (ational )r ani*ation 3UM()4 too' o&er the or ani*ation and e5pressed $on$ern o&er Utusans independen$e. E&er sin$e then utusan malaysia terkini has %een the unoffi$ial party representati&e for UM() in spite of all the protests and stri'es. #he offi$ial pu%li$i*ed newspaper $ame out on 1 st of 0eptem%er, 1926 as a ,omani*ed &ersion. +lso as a daily edition of Min uan Malaysia, this was pu%lished two years %efore, on the 37th of +u ust, 1928. Format of the newspaper 1onsistin of o&er 32 pa es, utusan terkini supplies its readers with ample news and $urrent affairs. +dditionally it in$ludes supplements $on$entratin on di&erse topi$s li'e fashion, health, musi$, te$hnolo y, politi$s and entertainment. 0ports news, re ional arti$les, %usiness and edu$ation news are also $o&ered. #his is Malaysia9s one and only national lan ua e %roadsheet newspaper as Berita Harian, another Malay daily $han ed its format to ta%loid in 277:. #he lo o this newspaper daily is a %lue masthead. Circulation #he sales of this newspaper pea'ed in the 19979s sellin 3;7,777 $opies per day and went on to %e$ome the lar est sellin newspaper dailies in Malaysia. In 2717 thou h the $ir$ulation has sli htly de$lined where a%out 167,777 $opies were sold, only. <owe&er %y 2712, sales pi$'ed up 16:,777 $opies daily. How the readers received it

Utusan Malaysia has $ome under the $riti$ism a lot many times for its dou%le standards in reportin arti$les. #his was done with re ard to politi$al news and often the statements i&en %y 1hief Ministers in the opposition party were manipulated, ta'en out of $onte5t or fa%ri$ated. +lso reported of pro&o'in ra$ist sentiments amon st the masses, Utusan Malaysia was a$$used of pu%lishin a hi hly ra$ist news a ainst the 1hinese. It was in the year 2713 -ust the day after the eneral ele$tions. #he headline was titled = !+pa la u 1ina mahu>" meanin what else do the 1hinese want> #he newspaper daily went on to a$$use the 1hinese Malaysians %y la%elin them un rateful and reportedly tryin to dethrone the Malaysian o&ernment. + %oy$ott was also sta ed %y the former opposition = ?era' state o&ernment. #he newspaper has %een %adly $riti$i*ed for not pu%lishin adequate arti$les on forei n news. It has also %een held for pu%lishin irresponsi%le news and %een $hara$teri*ed as a propa anda newspaper only pu%lishin news for the rulin party. Utusan Malaysia also had to fa$e a num%er of lawsuits mostly %e$ause of its %adly distorted and defamatory $o&era e of news.

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