Open AccessPNG: Threats to media freedom and FOI
Author(s) -
Susuve Laumaea
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v16i2.1030
Subject(s) - nothing , freedom of the press , politics , project commissioning , freedom of information , publishing , political science , payment , censorship , law , media studies , business , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , finance
Commentary: In PNG, the threats to media freedom and freedom of information include political and economic threats against the media and patronage of journalists. Journalists become silenced or ‘tamed’ when they accept payment from powerful individuals, corporations, political parties and corrupt institutions to see nothing, hear nothing and say or write nothing about the illegal and corrupt excesses of powerful political and economic players.