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Saturday 25 April 2009

(-+) One Picture Worth a Thousand Words: Fiji Military Has Tanks?

It's been a mad week. What with Bainimarama's award for services to humanity and Salinger's dismissal from Niwa (see post below, "Unbelievable But True") but now we have Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum saying, not only that overseas media are portraying a lot of false images about Fiji, but (read on...)

“I understand, for example, in Australia – one of the TV stations was showing tanks when they were talking about Fiji – the pictures in the background. The military does not have tanks in Fiji. You have old file footage being shown as current footage - but not saying ‘file footage.’ You have a lot of sensationalism. You have media organizations reading [anti-Government] blogs. That doesn’t of course help.”

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