FIJI: Media 'resembles failed state': report

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Updated February 28, 2008 21:37:40

The author of a report on Fiji's media has compared the industry to a failed state. The report by Hawai based academic Doctor James Anthony was conducted on behalf of Fiji's Human Rights Commissioner Dr Shaista Shameen. Dr Anthony's report calls Fiji's media unprofessional, biased, politically connected, and dominated by foreign owners and reporters.

Presenter: Campbell Cooney reports:
Speakers: Recently deported publisher of the Fiji Sun newspaper Russell Hunter

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