[pima.nius] New Pacific Media Association being formed

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From: Marc Neil-Jones <publisher@dailypost.vu>
Date: 30 June 2010 16:26
Subject: [Freedom-Forum] A new Pacific Media Association is being formed
To: pacificmedia@googlegroups.com, mediafreedom@googlegroups.com, pacificxix@gmail.com

Congratulations John on your PINA resignation. You can only bang your head against a brick wall for so long. About time others made a stand. A new Pacific Media Association is already in the process of being formed following meetings in the past month in Samoa and through email to do what PINA has not been capable of doing. Has anybody seen this statement about this new Pacific Media Association? A number of newspapers are printing this  in their paper tomorrow. It is good news indeed as PINA is a lost cause and more and more of an embarrassment in saying and doing nothing over media freedom issues, allowing censorship of it's news service and complete lack of transparency. Congratulations once again to John for making a stand.

Pacific media seeks independent voice

A proposed new Pacific media organisation today announced its intentions to stand up for media rights and to represent the multi-media industry of the region.

This follows the silence of PINA on the draconian Fiji Media Decree and its absence of commitment to the association's core values in defending and standing up for media rights, allowing military censorship of the regional Pacnews service and a lack of transparency and accountability in the association.

A concerned group of media proprietors, journalists and educators has decided to make public their plans to form a media association that will seek to represent the independent media of the whole region.

Discussions have taken place over the last month regarding such a body that would fully embrace the values of independent journalism. These include media freedom, ethics, governance (civil and corporate), transparency and accountability.

For obvious reasons, such a body cannot be based in Fiji.

It is suggested that Samoa, because of its media freedom environment and regional air links, would be the best location. It should be noted that PINA is registered in Samoa whose Prime Minister has been a consistent advocate for media freedom.

This association would actively campaign for the above values and would also offer an uncensored news service to its members and other interested parties.

With the working title Pacific Media Association, membership would be available only to bona fide independent media operators, including those who serve Pacific peoples in places like Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii.

Informal contacts with some of our independent media colleagues in Melanesia and Australia have been positive and we hope they will play leading roles in any such regional body. It is hoped that it will be truly regionally representative.

For more details contact:

pacificmedia.assoc@gmail.com

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