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| Title: | Who let the blogs out? Media and free speech in post-coup Fiji |
| Authors: | Foster, Sophie |
| Keywords: | Fiji
media freedom
blogs
censorship
coups
Fiji military
Voreqe Bainimarama
media self-regulation
self-censorship
defamation
racism |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2007 |
| Publisher: | Pacific Journalism Review |
| Abstract: | Fiji's fourth armed seizure of government on 5 December 2006 delivered more than a new administration - it heralded the onslaught of a new media environment. With a heavy military crackdown on dissenting opinion and subsequent self-censorship of mainstream media, anonymous weblogs became a safe option for expressing anti-coup views. But because some anonymous blogs allowed racist, defamatory and provocative views to flourish, the role of the press and journalistic ethics were also seen as important. This article examines how a new - and uneasy - media combination kept freedom of expression alive in the months following the coup d'etat. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/42 |
| ISSN: | 1023 9499 |
| Appears in Collections: | Media Research Papers and Documents
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