Open AccessTV talk in PNG: A search for policy in a weak state
Author(s) -
Robert J. Foster
Publication year - 1999
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.v5i1.653
Subject(s) - new guinea , project commissioning , state (computer science) , publishing , political science , sacrifice , advertising , public relations , media studies , sociology , political economy , law , history , business , computer science , ethnology , archaeology , algorithm
The reasons for the nation-state's weakness are many, but the course of TV talk over the last 10 years in Papua New Guinea reveals one reason in particular: the sacrifice of long-term-state-building to the immediate demands of electoral strategy.