Archive: Fiji: The Internet Coup
By Jeremy Rose
The Fijians have taken to calling them "parachute journalists". The reporters, that is, who drop in from around the globe to file...
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...
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: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death
President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...
Archive: Scrutiny of the Pacific mass media
REVIEW: By Damon Salesa
This ocean of ours is many things, but it is rarely "pacific". The passage of contact, colonialism and supposed independence has...