Media And The Rohingya Issue.

Newspapers and news portals have been the most conventional and popular medium for conveying local, regional, national and international news to the readers.

The media serves us to provide the latest information and events taking place in different parts of the world through a network of correspondents and news agencies. Myanmar's major news portals also shape and influence the views, opinions and attitudes of millions of readers across the globe, especially throughout South and Southeast Asia, Myanmar.

The Irrawaddy is one of the widely circulated English-language news portals in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar. It is also widely known in South East Asia. It is very popular in Myanmar. Policymakers, decision-makers, diplomats, academicians, researchers, and businessmen read this news publication regularly. Its hard-hitting insightful editorials and opinions are keenly followed by the government, lawmakers, diplomats and business people alike.

The Irrawaddy is just one example of publications published in both English and Burmese, with a primary focus on Burma and Southeast Asia. It is regarded as one of the foremost journalistic publications dealing with political, social, economic and cultural developments in Burma.

In addition to news, it features in-depth political analysis and interviews with a wide range of Burma experts, business leaders, democracy activists and other influential figures.

But it's a matter of sorrow that news outlets such as the one above do not perform a positive role in the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Although they are vocal in favour of the democratic rights activists in Myanmar, in the case of the Rohingya refugee crisis, they have not been playing a...