News Coverage of Republic of Singapore in Thai Daily Newspapers

Abstract

The purpose of this study, titled “News Coverage of Republic of Singapore in Thai Daily Newspaper” is to study news content reported in relation to Republic of Singapore in the aspects of quantity dimensions, content genres of presentation, and direction in content presentation concerning Republic of Singapore in Thailand daily newspapers. The study employed the content analysis method to analyse the data from the four daily Thai newspapers, i.e. Thairath, Daily News, Matichon, and Kungthep Turakij (BangkokBizNews) between January 1 and November 30, 2018 with a rotated sampling selection. Regarding this, there were 189 issues selected from the newspapers. The data were recorded on the coding sheet to collect all important and necessary data. The findings reveal that BangkokBizNews has the most quantity of new coverage of Republic of Singapore, followed by Matichon, ThaiRath, and Daily News respectively. When considering the content genres, the top three of them are international cooperation, internal economic, and internal politics. However, there is no news reported on international assistance and natural disaster. With regard to the direction in content presentation, the results show that the direction is more positive than it is in the neutral and negative directions. When looking into each newspaper, it is found that BangkokBizNews and Matichon mostly presented the positive direction rather than the neutral and negative directions. For the positive direction, it is mostly presented in relation to internal economic in Singapore, international cooperation, and internal politics, whereas negative contents are mostly about internal politics, general news including internal security.