RTM also has the intention to promote the interest of the ruling party by covering major news reports about the party. According to Masterman (2001, p. 5): Seizure of radio and television stations, the telecommunications net and mass production newspapers is an immediate imperative in every coup or revolution. Symbolically and practically, this act sums up the role of information in maintaining or overthrowing a social
differential treatment of some within a society, where the inequality seems to promote the social dominance of one group over another. In Sepet (Yasmin Ahmad, 2004), a lot of ideology approaches and issues which seem to be highly controversial in Malaysia, especially in Malay-Muslim culture are portrayed in this film. This film has brought the attention of local viewers, with good and bad responses from across the country. Interestingly, the issues that she brought up are considered taboo and not