Proceeding of International Seminar Development Administration : Paradigm of Human Development

Abstract

News media has been played an important role to expose a leader and political parties. The relationship between media and leaders with political parties in a nation comes up as a hill and its mount. They both depends each other to get, deliver, distribute, and spread its news. A media such as newspaper needs a leader and members of political parties to interact with them in whole aspects, included politics, economics, social and cultures. This assessment tries to observe newspapers in providing news report of Najib Tun Razak, who has been incoming Prime Minister and political parties in Malaysia. The main reason, newspapers which deliver in Malay language, English, Chinese, and Indian, has been collected for this assessment. Others are Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, The Star, The New Straits Times, Nanyang Siang Pau, China Press, Malaysia Nanban, and Tamil Nesan. The assessment only represents the moment in time of Vote of UMNO ( March 23 – 29, 2009) and before Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had been inaugurated and vowed as Prime Minister on April 4, 2009. The collected columns are political ones. This assessment will be recognized as diversities of printing news media reports in some languages about incoming 6th Malaysian Prime Minister. The result of this assessment finds out Chinese newspapers deliver balanced report towards leaders and political parties.