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Cambodian Journalism 'Flying Blind', Eric Loo Jan 2006

Cambodian Journalism 'Flying Blind', Eric Loo

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

With freedom comes great responsibility, says a famous movie script. Not so with the Cambodian press. The many publications owned by as many factions are unrestrained in slandering their adversaries. Everyone’s fair media prey – except for the King. Unbridled reporting with no clear ethical guidelines often sees public decency being violated, which has caused near zero public faith in the media.


What Is The Solution? Moving Cultural Diversity To The Centre Of Journalism Debates, Tanja Dreher Jan 2006

What Is The Solution? Moving Cultural Diversity To The Centre Of Journalism Debates, Tanja Dreher

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Like Ghassan Nakhoul, I want to look at the recent open season on the Lebanese community in the Sydney press, following the fatal shootings at Greenacre in October. The news coverage of these events provides us with a good opportunity to assess the impact of considerable public debate and research about reporting cultural diversity that took place in the second half of 2001, in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Centre in new York.