I would like to argue that state-media in Myanmar and international media has a different perception on human rights that creates a ditchotomy between the two contexts. What theories I could base my arguments on?
I believe that the different perception of human rights does not create a division over media coverage , but discrimination and lack of independence for the media can be considered one of the main reasons for the different media coverage.
Really the issue is whether there's anything universal about human rights, or if they are actually culturally specific. You might consider the possibility that there are diverse views, but that only shows some views are plain wrong.
Take a look at my "The rights of men: Political weapons or universal principles?" You can download this from my "Research" page.
Christopher NOCK
Not necessarily. My book ’Women and War in Rwanda: Gender, Media and the Representation of Genocide‘ and a book chapter I wrote on Negotiating narratives about human rights abuses in eastern DRC examine how western narratives are mobilised by African actors, often as part of a public diplomacy strategy or to try and influence how the ‘international community’ intervenes in Congo/Great Lakes region. In this sense, African and western actors operate in the same grids of knowledge and Reproduce the same narratives about HR abuses in their media but are driven by different motivations.
Rights are universal. The science of rights:
https://www.academia.edu/37021128/Scientific_Proof_of_Our_Unalienable_Rights
The right to bear arms is universal? Good lord, I hope not.
There's a universal right to health care?
There's a universal right to life? No, no, no..
NOCK
We all like to believe that rights should be universal. And we reckon that we can universally protect them, one instance can support another. However what we can see and what we see in media is that human rights are not always protected nor are they standards in every community or country.
On a community level (small villages or groups or people to clarify) human rights can be perceived as 'not for all'. That would be the dichotomy. But in terms of media coverage... difficult to say.
How do you perceive media coverage in your own country? Do you see a dichotomy in media coverage? Is it really all that different?
Yes that can be for both political and philosophical reasons. Politically because human rights discourse seem to be dominated by the western powers and philosophically, human rights vision vary across states and cultures.
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