POLITICAL NEWS IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA OF VIETNAM

Development of Internet in Vietnam has brought changes in all aspects of public life. The online newspapers of Vietnam, which are developing quickly and are becoming important sources of information for the population, plays a particularly important and undeniable role in these changes. The article discusses the information policy in delivering political news of two largest Internet newspapers in Vietnam: Vietnamnet and VnExpress. Special attention is concentrated at the case study of the conflict in the South China Sea. The main method of study is content analysis. The author studies the role of the Vietnamese online media in informing the events of the conflict in all its stages and details, the views of Vietnamese and foreign journalists and experts on “many-dash line” policy of China in the South China Sea, the position of such world empires as Russia and the USA in the search of solution.

electronic media, Internet newspapers, political news, the South China Sea, territorial conflict, Paracel and Spratly islands