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Title – 6851 SAMOA: Savea Sano Malifa speaks out on Pacific media freedom
Date – 7 May 2010
Byline – Savea Sano Malifa
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – Pacific Scoop, 6/5/10
Copyright – PS
Status – Unabridged
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THREATS TO MEDIA FREEDOM IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/05/threats-to-media-freedom-in-the-south-pacific/
Analysis – By Savea Sano Malifa
APIA (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): At the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference at the University of Queensland in Brisbane on May 2-3, 2010, Savea Sano Malifa presented a paper on "Threats to Media Freedom and Freedom of Information in the South Pacific". Since it was a panel discussion, he only spoke from part of its content. Here, Pacific Scoop publishes his complete paper:
All of us at the Samoa Observer, as some of you are probably well aware, have been through some gruelling challenges over the last 20 years or so. They have been tough times, but then we don't believe it's a good idea dwelling in the past, holding grudges against anyone, or pointing a finger at any group of people.
We believe in going forward, and in this paper, the issues I shall be discussing are meant only to be used as lessons to learn from, in the hope that those snags do not recur, so that we become much more tolerant and wiser because of them.
The Samoa Observer was founded in a cookhouse in a village near Apia in August 1978. Almost right away it struck problems. The government of Prime Minister Tupuola Efi did not like the idea of this new newspaper publicly revealing all these things that had never been revealed before.
* See full text of article on Pacific Scoop http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/05/threats-to-media-freedom-in-the-south-pacific/
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