War of words with publisher

Abstract

There was a war of words between Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and a senior journalist at a media function last night. Chaudhry claimed there was no truth in a story written by Robert Keith-Reid of Island Business. When Keith-Reid yelled out from the audience that the story had come from a reliable sources, Chaudhry told him he (Keith-Reid) was suffering memory lapse.

Keywords

• Fiji media council
• media code of ethics
• Islands Business