Open AccessNOTED: Lost in translation
Author(s) -
David Robie
Publication year - 2014
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.v20i1.205
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , focus (optics) , media studies , grasp , ethnology , history , geography , sociology , political science , engineering , law , physics , software engineering , optics
Reviewed book by Tim HoganNew Zealand media and journalists largely equate the ‘Pacific’ with Polynesia. The focus of reportage and understanding the region begins with the Cook islands and ends with Niue, Samoa and Tonga, with a limited grasp of Fiji. Anything west of Nadi, the Melanesian nations, gains cursory attention and Tahiti Nui (Polynesian) and Kanaky (Melanesian) are all but ignored.