Open AccessREVIEW: Noted: Democracy and the price of silence
Author(s) -
David Robie
Publication year - 2012
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.v18i1.305
Subject(s) - democracy , project commissioning , journalism , publishing , silence , government (linguistics) , corporate governance , media studies , democratic governance , political science , sociology , public administration , law , art , management , politics , economics , linguistics , philosophy , aesthetics
Review of: Shoot the messenger: The report on the Nuku'alofa reconstruction project and why the government of Tonga dumped it, By Teena Brown Pulu. Auckland and Nuku'alofa: Taimi Publishers. Investigative journalism is critical to good governance in evolving South Pacific democracies, particularly the youngest, Tonga, which embarked on the biggest democratic reforms in a century in 2010. This is the view of Auckland Tongan anthropologist, social commentator and now author of a suppressed-then-exposed report about post-riots urban development.