Broadcast media enjoy more freedom after GE14


Chan Kok Leong

BFM general manager Meera Sivasothy said the station was called up several times and fined RM10,000 in 2014 for the Reza Azlan interview. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, October 13, 2018.

ENGLISH-language broadcast stations are now enjoying the freedom to push greater boundaries in their coverage of politics and current issues under the new Pakatan Harapan government, station heads said.

For one, BFM Radio general manager Meera Sivasothy no longer has to submit a weekly list of topics and people the station will interview to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).


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