George Floyd’s death and the US Black Lives Matter movement sparked extensive media attention. Why aren't Australian Indigenous deaths in custody getting the same amount of media coverage?
SOLOMONS AUTHORITIES UNDER FIRE OVER MEDIA GAG Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/09/1999 - 00:00
( See PMW items 2203, 2201, 2195, 2194. PIM website is at http://www.pim.com.fj)
SUVA, Fiji Islands (August 4, 1999 Â Pacific Media Watch/Pacific Islands Monthly/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire) -An international news agency reporter covering the recent Solomon Islands ethnic clashes has criticized the media gag and a severe personality clash among authorities as problems for journalists.
Writing in the August edition of the Suva-based Pacific Islands Monthly newsmagazine, Michael Field cited a gagging writ against the weekly Solomon Voice newspaper by police commissioner Frank Short over a critical letter.
The letter reportedly targeted the Englishman who has a background in South Africa s apartheid era police force.