Category: Café Pacific

Source: Dr David Robie – Café Pacific – Analysis-Reportage:

Headline: ‘Free media’ week killings – but don’t forget crimes against Papuans

“Save Papuan Journalists” – a theme poster from last year’s May 3 World Press Freedom Day event in Jakarta, Indonesia.
West Papuan media freedom issues tend to be “lost” in the standard press freedom reports on Indonesia.
Image: David Robie/Pacific Media Centre

By David Robie

MONDAY – just three days before today’s World Press Freedom Day – was the deadliest day for news media in

Source: Dr David Robie – Café Pacific – Analysis-Reportage:

Headline: Free media week killings underscore crimes of impunity against journalists

A press freedom protest in the Philippines capital of Manila over the latest killing of a radio
journalist this week. Image: RSF

 By David Robie
MONDAY – just three days before today’s World Press Freedom Day – was the deadliest day for news media in Afghanistan
in 17 years. The killing of nine journalists and media workers among 26
people who died in dual suicide bomb attacks in Kabul was

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Headline: The Ben Bohane photo that Facebook censored on an article about Indonesia

The original version of this photo, of West Papuan nambas (traditional penis gourds), which was published
in the weekend edition of the family newspaper Vanuatu Daily Post and then by Asia Pacific Report,
was deemed to have breached Facebook’s “community standards”. The photo was by award-winning
photojournalist Ben Bohane, who lives in Vanuatu.

BEN BOHANE: CHINA? NO, LET’S FACE THE

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Headline: Chinese ‘baseless rumour’, Nauru ‘justice’ for refugees and Fiji diabetes

David Robie talks on 95bFM about current Pacific issues

Reuben McLaren of 95bFM talks to Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific
Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology, on the centre’s Southern Cross radio programme.

David speaks about various upheavals around the Pacific, including the alleged Chinese military “base plans” for Vanuatu,
Nauru abolishing its Appeal Court

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Headline: Flashback to the 1968 My Lai massacre: ‘Something dark and bloody’

RT’s special report on the My Lai massacre and the cover-up of this atrocity.

THE MELBOURNE Sunday Observer — the original paper of that name which campaigned against Australian involvement as a US surrogate in the Vietnam War — published photographs of the My Lai massacre in December 1969. It was prosecuted for “obscenity” for reporting the obscenity but the charge was later dropped.

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Headline: Harsh response lessons abound in wake of PNG’s ‘invisible’ quake

Timu village from the top showing the site where 11 people were buried
by landslips during the earthquake on
26 February 2018. Four of the
bodies have been recovered, seven are still buried, including five
children.
Image: Sylvester Gawi/Graun Blong Mi- My Land

By David Robie

Tomorrow Papua New Guinea is marking two weeks since the devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake that devastated