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

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Authors and Corporations: Robie, David
In: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 1, 1994, 1, p. 97-98
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 97-98
ISSN: 2324-2035
1023-9499
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v1i1.527
published in: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
Language: Undetermined
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Collection: Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>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.&#x0D; 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. </jats:p>