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Papua New Guinea deserves better than cut and paste journalism

On 07 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Source: Dr Kristian Lasslett | International State Crime Initiative

The Spin Cycle: How Papua New Guinea’s media washes dirty stories

On 02 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Dr Kristian Lasslett | International State Crime Initiative

With characteristic insight, last week Oro Governor Gary Juffa MP took aim at Papua New Guinea’s media.

Juffa asked:

Australian aid in PNG seen as enabling core problems

On 25 Sep, 2015 By ACTNOW

Photo: Port Moresby CBD. RNZI / Koro Vaka'uta

Source: Radio New Zealand

Australia's aid programme in Papua New Guinea has been described as having enabled rather than remedied state fraud and market distortions in PNG

The damning indictment came in a submission by the International State Crime Initiative at an Australian senate inquiry into the aid programme in PNG.

EMTV news edited to remove corruption story embarrassing to the government

On 11 Mar, 2015 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Exposed

Last Thursday, the 5th of March, EM TV featured on its primetime 6pm television news bulletin a story about the massive K780 million Finance Department fraud.

Thursday was the fifth anniversary of the tabling of a Commission of Inquiry report into the fraud.

We Are to Blame for Our Corrupt Leaders - Its Time to Unite and Fight

On 27 Jan, 2014 By rait man

from PNG Exposed

Print Media controlled by those who PAY

On 31 Oct, 2013 By Tim

By GOVERNOR GARY JUFFA MP via PNG Blogs

The two dailies are owned by foreign interest, foreign corporate interest to be specific. Papua New Guinea does not own a daily, one that is at least controlled by a Papua New Guinean, one that reports issues of interest to Papua New Guinea and Papua New Guineans. What is reported instead is merely what sells, what suits the interests of those who control these entities and that which does not in anyway conflict with the interests of the stakeholders that influence the output of these entities.

Papua New Guinea's new media underground

On 01 Mar, 2012 By rait man

By Andrew Pascoe*

The cards seem firmly stacked against optimism on the streets of Papua New Guinea at the moment. It’s a bad sign in an election year, with little confidence evident that the outcome will correct our Pacific neighbour’s course from the particularly rocky path it’s taken in recent months.

But here — like elsewhere in the developing world where obscene power disparity is mobilising the masses — a wellspring of resistance is brewing.

Alarm among PNG media over monitoring plans

On 24 Feb, 2012 By rait man

From Radio New Zealand

A media advocate in Papua New Guinea says journalists are shocked and nervous after an official in the office of prime minister, Peter O’Neill, announced that people expressing what he called subversive views would be dealt with.

The official, Ben Micah, says a monitoring committee will be set up to look at the spreading of malicious and misleading information through social media, which he says would be regarded as a serious crime.

We are being informed but we are not acting on the information

On 09 Dec, 2011 By Tim With 1 Comments

By Scott Waide

What is this 'PNG Attitude'?

On 12 Jul, 2011 By rait man

By Martyn Namorong

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