An analysis of perceptions of press freedom: an Islamic perspective

• Main Author: Sedu, Nerawi
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) 2009
• Subjects: PN Literature (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/598/1/An_analysis_of_perceptions_of_press_freedom-_an_islamic_perspective.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/598/; http://www.atiner.gr/docs/2009Pasadeos_CONT.htm
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

ress freedom is one of the important concepts in journalism practice P (Kent, 1972). Scholars from western countries as well as nonwestern countries have conducted many studies on the concept of press freedom from different perspectives with different emphasis (Kent, 1972; Faringer, 1991; Lee, 1991, 1997; Layton, 1993; Gunaratne, 2002). In the context of Malaysia, there were also several studies conducted on this concept but none of them analysed it from the Islamic perspective (Blackburn, 1971; Sani, Yusof, and Wok, 2003; Sani, 2005)....