A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003

The Singapore press has mostly been characterised within the nation-building or development journalism mould. This case study combines content analysis with interviews to evaluate a largely unexplored aspect in local communications studies research; the press-military dynamic in Singapore. Emplo...

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Main Author: Singh, Manmohan
Other Authors: Indrajit Banerjee
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/41507
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-415072019-12-10T14:07:33Z A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003 Singh, Manmohan Indrajit Banerjee Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::Reporting on public affairs and politics The Singapore press has mostly been characterised within the nation-building or development journalism mould. This case study combines content analysis with interviews to evaluate a largely unexplored aspect in local communications studies research; the press-military dynamic in Singapore. Employing the Gramscian concept of hegemony and Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model to trace the evolution of the government-press relationship in Singapore, the study examines the approaches adopted by Mindef and Straits Times after two separate incidents involving deaths in the SAE in 2003. The analysis is focused on evaluating the contending sets of institutional pressures, constraintsa and challenges of both organisations in fulfilling their respective duties to the public, in seeking to explain the causes of and the culpability for each of the incidents. ​Master of Mass Communication 2010-07-16T01:38:17Z 2010-07-16T01:38:17Z 2008 2008 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/41507 en Nanyang Technological University 159 p. application/pdf
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Singh, Manmohan
A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003
description The Singapore press has mostly been characterised within the nation-building or development journalism mould. This case study combines content analysis with interviews to evaluate a largely unexplored aspect in local communications studies research; the press-military dynamic in Singapore. Employing the Gramscian concept of hegemony and Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model to trace the evolution of the government-press relationship in Singapore, the study examines the approaches adopted by Mindef and Straits Times after two separate incidents involving deaths in the SAE in 2003. The analysis is focused on evaluating the contending sets of institutional pressures, constraintsa and challenges of both organisations in fulfilling their respective duties to the public, in seeking to explain the causes of and the culpability for each of the incidents.
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title A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003
title_short A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003
title_full A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003
title_fullStr A critical analysis of the Straits Times' reporting on the Singapore Armed Forces : the RSS courageous and dunking incidents in 2003
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