Controversial Close-Up

Abstract

Fiji Television's Close-Up programme on 28 May 2000 featured an outspoken media analysis of the [George Speight] insurrection and this led to an attack on the station's studio and offices by a mob of Speight supporters. This is a transcript of the discussion chaired by reporter Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and featuring political columnist Jone Dakuvula and Communications Fiji Ltd managing director William Parkinson. [The transcript was compiled by University of the South Pacific student journalist Alison Ofotalau for Pacific Journalism Online at USP and was widely republished by other media.]

Keywords

• Fiji coups
• Fiji Television
• George Speight
• media freedom
• political journalism