Open AccessBush Bugarup
Author(s) -
Deborah Richards
Publication year - 1994
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.v1i1.518
Subject(s) - new guinea , newspaper , project commissioning , publishing , political science , media studies , management , advertising , history , law , sociology , business , ethnology , economics
When the ABC Four Corners programme 'Bush Bugarup' about the timber industry in Papua New Guinea was shown in May 1994, it stirred a controversy in the country and headlines in the press. but it was not mentioned by the Rimbunan Hijau-associated National daily newspaper. This is an edited extract from the script, published for the first time.