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Title – 6043 FIJI: Media council says need for balanced coverage now
critical
Date – 28 March 2009
Byline – None
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – Radio NZ International, 27/03/09
Copyright – RNZI
Status – Unabridged
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*FIJI MEDIA COUNCIL SAYS BALANCED COVERAGE MORE CRITICAL NOW THAN EVER *
www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=45601
SUVA (*RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch*): The Fiji Media Council says
providing balanced coverage of events in the country has never been more
important than it is at the moment.
His comments come after attacks on the homes of the editor-in-chief of
the *Fiji
Times* and a security recruitment agent.
The military, the police and the interim government claim the media’s
portrayal of these attacks is unbalanced.
But the council’s chairperson, Daryl Tarte, says that under the
circumstances, the media are reporting these events as objectively as they
can.
they want to be. It’s probably more dangerous to be partisan in Fiji than it
is in Australia but the fact is that I think most media in Fiji are trying
to report as objectively and in a balanced way as they can. It is very
dangerous for them not to do so. And the examples of the recent attacks on
the editor of the Fiji Times is evidence of this”*
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