David Robie being interviewed by Litia Ava on Fiji National University's Radio FM88.6 on "open day". Also pictured are Jessica Gounder and Wati Talebula. Photo: Varanisese Nasilasila (FNU) |
Café Pacific publisher David Robie has just experienced more of the same with his latest conference presentations at the University of the South Pacific. At USP for a “conference within a conference” with the theme “Islands and Nations: ‘Failed states’ and the environment" at the Pacific Science Inter-congress last week.
Last time it was The Fiji Times at fault. Now it is the Fiji Sun. Reporter Rinu Shyyam correctly reported the call for a new “media morality” (without explaining the context) but the rest of her story was a garbled parody of what Robie actually said.
And it seems the reporter wasn't actually at the presentation at all – she has simply rehashed a University of the South Pacific press release.
The problem is that reporter Shyyam has simply uplifted paraphrased comments from the media release and then reintroduced them into her story as direct quotes and made nonsense of the statements.