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This study presents a comparative analysis of the media’s role in politics in Thailand and Japan.... more This study presents a comparative analysis of the media’s role in politics in Thailand and Japan. Previous studies of the media’s role in politics are categorized into four groups: the pluralist model, which views the media’s role as that of a ‘watchdog’; the Marxist model, which argues that the media act as a ‘guard dog’ that guards the owners’ interests; the hegemonic model, which claims that the media act as an ‘agenda-setter’; the cultural relativist model, which considers that cultural factors can limit the media’s role to that of a ‘servant of the state’. In this study, the media are viewed as active political actors, which interact dynamically with the state and the public. The media do not pursue a single consistent role. Rather, the media’s role is viewed as fluid and changeable depending on their political relations and power relations between the state, the media, and the public at
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