THANKS AGAIN to Pacific Media Watch: Brutal repression of journalists and civil rights in Indonesian-ruled West Papua, censorship and self-censorship in Fiji and abuses of a free press in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu have been highlighted in a Pacific media freedom report being published tomorrow. The 41-page report by the Pacific Media Centre’s [...]
Scott Cleland, President of Precursor LLC, talks about what Google’s Wi-Spy scandal means to Americans’ privacy, as well as what it may portend for broader Internet industry regulation. Media Freedom
IT IS astounding how misinformed and shallow the thinking of many journalists around the Pacific has been when faced with a quickfire debate on such terms as “development journalism” and “peace journalism”. Simply because one Canadian media educator trumpeted a discredited interpretation of “development journalism” – which Westerners like to project – based around the [...]
I don’t really have anything to add to this excerpt from Holman Jenkins’ column today, “How We’re Holding Back Broadband,” regarding the spectrum crunch, caused by politics, and how it threatens broadband ubiquity in America: …Like food rotting on a dock, only politics and policy prevents spectrum from getting where it’s needed. However, the industry’s big boys, [...]
Another positive outcome from PINA … work on a new Pacific media freedom documentary by the University of the South Pacific. Pictured: Director Don Pollock, Radio Djiido’s Magalie Tingal and Samoa Savali editor Tupuola Terry Tavita. Photo: David Robie AFTER THE furore over contrasting views on PINA 2012 and a season of personal insults and [...]
The other day a Federal Appeals Court struck down an FCC ban on political ads on PBS. Reuters reports that: By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the Federal Communications Commission violated the First Amendment’s free speech clause by blocking public broadcasters from running [...]
Technological uptake reveals built-in disruption, which equals more fertile ground for innovation and growth Media Freedom
A BELATED posting of a presentation at the recent PINA Pacific Media Summit in Pacific Harbour that took a swipe at the Australian and New Zealand media coverage on Fiji. This was part of a panel discussing social media and credibility: By Leone Cabenatabua, publications manager of the Fiji Sun Should the public believe social [...]