Archive: Commentary: The gag threat to Café Pacific
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-four
By David Robie
Judging by how the number...
Archive: Media: Press freedom on the rocks
A feisty newspaper publisher's loss to the Samoan prime minister in a hefty defamation case and manipulation by the Fiji Information Ministry in an...
Archive: Media: NZ journalists in Fiji work permit tangle
Two New Zealand journalism educators are still in suspense over their positions at the University of the South Pacific amid controversy over the "politicising"...
Community, demagogues and the South Pacific news media
By David Robie
On 19 October 1995, the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea issued the terms of reference for a Constitutional Review Committee's (CRC) Subcommittee...
Archive: Media: Background to a Fiji vendetta
A decade-old vendetta against a New Zealand journalist by a Fiji-based media group has again resurfaced.
By Harry Stoner
In mid-1989, the New Zealand Journalist branded...
Archive: Controversial journalist to get USP post
Fiji's Sunday Post
Controversial New Zealander David Robie could be appointed to head the University of the South Pacific's growing journalism programme.
Some USP academics not...