Pacific Journalism Review (Sep 2001)

Asia-Pacific overview

  • Kavita Menon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v7i1.707
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1

Abstract

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By and large, however, the press in democractic Asia is threated less by government action than by government inaction in the face of violent attacks against journalists. Seven Asian journalists were killed for their work in 2000, nearly all of them in countries with an aggressive independent press but weak in or politicised law enforcement agencies.

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