Open AccessParadise exposed: Is the region's Fourth Estate up to it?
Author(s) -
Mary-Louise O'Callaghan
Publication year - 2001
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.v7i1.695
Subject(s) - fourth estate , paradise , project commissioning , publishing , politics , estate , political science , media studies , real estate , journalism , advertising , news media , economic history , history , sociology , law , business , art history
Should the local press bear some of the responsibility for the political turmoil that has engulfed the South Pacific, asks this article in the first of a series of regional perspectives on crises and how the news media have handled them. Great news is rarely good news for the countries involved.