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SOLOMONS AUTHORITIES UNDER FIRE OVER MEDIA GAG | Pacific Islands Report


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 – 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. ....

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