Volume 7, Issue 1
Crisis and coverage
Fiji coup, Solomons and PNG
August, 2001
A Ben Bohane portrait of Fijian nationalist Apisai Tora.
In this issue…
This edition is the third published at the University of the South Pacific.
PARADISE EXPOSED: Is the region's Fourth Estate up to it? By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan 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. pp 10-19
Theme
1. Paradise exposed: Is the region's Fourth Estate up to it?
Coverage of crises
Mary-Louise O'Callaghan
2. The bure newsroom
Michael Field
4. Fiji military exorcise ghosts
Ben Bohane
Articles
5. Cartooning in the Pacific: The social construction of humour
Steven Ratuva
Commentary
6. 'I couldn't stop crying'
The Uni Tavur Testimony 1
7. 'Dear Mum and Dad'
The Uni Tavur Testimony 2
8. Reporters and the police: Too close?
9. Talking the wrong talk?