Paradise exposed: Is the region's Fourth Estate up to it?

Abstract

Should the local press bear some of the responsibility for the political turmoil that has engulfed the South Pacific, asks this article in the first of a series of regional perspectives on crises and how the news media have handled them. Great news is rarely good news for the countries involved.

Keywords

• culture
• conflict reporting
• Fiji coups
• geopolitics
• media freedom
• politics