This page brings together all the stories on Fiji that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

Articles 1 to 8 of 8 (with the most recent first)

Forgotten Fiji
Last summer's coup in Fiji began with live Internet coverage but soon disappeared from the world's media. This group of articles delves into what happened.
From The Disinformation Company, 5 January 2001.
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Majoring In Speight
Students at the University of the South Pacific left on the day rebel leader George Speight took over Fiji's elected government. But student journalists stayed on the job. David Robie, a working journalist and department coordinator at USP, introduces the school and the reports.
From Pacific Journalism Programme (USP), 1 August 2000.
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Media As Coup-Makers
Did Fijian journalists fall prey to the charms of rebel leader George Speight? So says Pacific journalism scholar David Robie, who claims the local and international coverage of the political crisis was naïve, inaccurate and dangerous.
From Café Pacific, 12 July 2000.
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Ethics In The Pacific Islands
Last October, the Fiji Media Council unveiled its "general media code of ethics and practice" with a PR bash that took place in the midst of a national battle between politicians, the media, and journalism schools. David Robie breaks it down.
From Pacific Journalism Programme (USP), 1 April 2000.
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Prime Minister Sues Murdoch Paper
The Fijian government has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's The Fiji Times , saying a quote attributed to Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is "completely untrue and malicious." In a January 18 front-page story headlined "Share Wealth, PM Warns Businesses," The Fiji Times quoted Chaudhry as saying "The fat cats must learn to share." The lawsuit is the latest in a months-long wa...
From Pacific Media Watch, 18 January 2000.
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TV That Matters
With three primary languages and 24 percent of the population living in poverty, the tiny island nation of Fiji has more than its share of cultural, political and economic issues. Until last year, Fijians never saw these issues addressed on television, which had previously served up an irrelevant mix of entertainment shows from New Zealand and (of course) America, that great exporter of sit-co...
From World Assoc. for Christian Comm., .
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Banned In Fiji
After Fiji TV reported critically on media coverage of the current coup, a mob stormed the station. When a J-School Web site picked up the story, the University pulled the plug.
From Pacific Journalism Programme (USP), .
> also about: Freedom of Expression, News Coverage Multimedia/Internet

Ignoring AIDS In The South Pacific
The press was far from sensitive when they wrote about a young woman and how she contracted, illustrating the poor AIDS coverage in the South Pacific.
From Pacific Journalism Programme (USP), .
> also about: Asia and the Pacific, Cultural Impacts, News Coverage Personalities

This page brings together all the stories on Fiji that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

Articles 1 to 8 of 8 (with the most recent first)