REVIEW: Media hypocrisy

Review of A Critical View of Western Journalism and Scholarship on East Timor, by Geoffrey Gunn

  • David Robie
Keywords: East Timor, self-censorship, western journalism, Review

Abstract

Review of A Critical View of Western Journalism and Scholarship on East Timor, by Geoffrey Gunn, Manila: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers, 1994. 272 pp. K10.

Shortly after the Dili massacre in November 1991, I was paid a 'kill' fee by one of New Zealand's largest dailies rather than publish a detailed account of the circumstances leading up to the massacre and an exposure of the Indonesian lies and distortions. The full-page broadsheet article had already been set up in type and laid out when it was 'pulled' from the paper. A New Zealander was among those who were brutally murdered by Indonesian troops that tragic day. 

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Published
01-11-1994
How to Cite
Robie, D. (1994). REVIEW: Media hypocrisy: Review of A Critical View of Western Journalism and Scholarship on East Timor, by Geoffrey Gunn. Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 1(1), 97-98. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v1i1.527