TONGA: Press freedom ranking questioned

Updated November 19, 2007 14:40:16

An assessment that Tonga has slid dramatically backwards in terms of media freedom in just one year has been badly received by both the government and the country's main newspaper publisher. Reporters Without Borders, an international media NGO ranks countries in order of how easily journalists can do their jobs, free of restrictions, says it its latest survey that Tonga, which last year had been ranked 54th in the world, has gone down to 119th.

Presenter: Bruce Hill
Speakers: Kalafi Moala, Tonga newspaper publisher

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