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Protecting the Pacific's information environment

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The Fiji Times » Information is a public good – Reflections on the 2021 World Press Freedom Day

Dr Shailendra Singh
Journalists busy with their work at The Fiji Times newsroom. Picture: JONA KONATACI
THIS year’s WPFD had a powerful theme that is relevant for the Pacific – information is a public good. That access to information is a public right is not something that everyone fully understands in our region.
This lack of awareness can be used to deny the public access to vital information about the dealings of the state and its subsidiaries – information that may help the public decide which way to vote in the next elections, for example.
This WPFD theme is a reminder for Pacific Island governments that the public are entitled to information that affects their lives, and that as the people’s representatives, governments are sworn to uphold this right. ....

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Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics

Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment of “overly critical” journalists who are often subjected to intimidation or even imprisonment.
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog has criticised many governments in the Asia-Pacific region for censorship and disinformation that has worsened since the start of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic last year.
“On the one hand, governments use innovative practices often derived from marketing to impose their own narrative within the mainstream media, whose publishers are from the same elite as the politicians,” says RSF.
“On the other, politicians and activists wage a merciless war on several fronts against reporters and media outlets that don’t toe the official line.” ....

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