Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?

Two countries in the South Pacific, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, have adopted contrasting media council models to self-regulate the media amid growing political and cultural pressures on the news industry. Projected as promoting media standards and professionalism and a model for the region, the rea...

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Auteur principal:	David Robie
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Publié:	Asia Pacific Network 2003
Sujets:	pacific media Pacific media councils hegemony Pacific Way self-regulation Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b28c882e5e224167a7bac3b87d9c8e042021-12-02T10:24:56ZPacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?10.24135/pjr.v9i1.7591023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/b28c882e5e224167a7bac3b87d9c8e042003-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/759https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 Two countries in the South Pacific, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, have adopted contrasting media council models to self-regulate the media amid growing political and cultural pressures on the news industry. Projected as promoting media standards and professionalism and a model for the region, the realities have raised questions about whether such bodies are self-regulatory mechanisims genuinely working in the public interst in the Pacific or defending entrenched media and power relationships, some foreign, from pressure by island governments, There are also questions over whether codes of ethics promoted by the council are effective as self-regulatory tools for the media. Exploring case studies such as media coverage of the controversial John Scott double murder case in Fiji, the Speight attempted coup and political crisis in Papua New Guinea, this article exammines thses dilemmas and also whether codes of practice reflect regional 'Pacific way' cutlural values, or are in fact adopted as part of globalisation. David RobieAsia Pacific Networkarticlepacific mediaPacific media councilshegemonyPacific Wayself-regulationCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2003)
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description	Two countries in the South Pacific, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, have adopted contrasting media council models to self-regulate the media amid growing political and cultural pressures on the news industry. Projected as promoting media standards and professionalism and a model for the region, the realities have raised questions about whether such bodies are self-regulatory mechanisims genuinely working in the public interst in the Pacific or defending entrenched media and power relationships, some foreign, from pressure by island governments, There are also questions over whether codes of ethics promoted by the council are effective as self-regulatory tools for the media. Exploring case studies such as media coverage of the controversial John Scott double murder case in Fiji, the Speight attempted coup and political crisis in Papua New Guinea, this article exammines thses dilemmas and also whether codes of practice reflect regional 'Pacific way' cutlural values, or are in fact adopted as part of globalisation.
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title	Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?
title_short	Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?
title_full	Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?
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Pacific media councils and cultural values: Safety valve or entrenched hegemony?

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