Pacific Journalism Review (Jun 2002)

EDITORIAL: Free media rhetoric

  • David Robie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v8i1.726
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1

Abstract

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At this time of the year, there are the usual platitudes and rhetoric about "media freedom" in the Pacific. The Fiji Times, for example, complained in an editorial about politicians with a "misguided theory" that Fiji was not ready for a critical and aggresssive media because of the traditional system of values and its developing nation status.

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