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Fiji Sun editor's gossip column
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Title -- 2717 FIJI: Opinion: Fiji Sun editor's gossip column
Date -- 6 May 2000
Byline -- None
Origin -- Pacific Media
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Source -- PMW/Fiji Sun
Copyright -- PMW
Status -- Unabridged
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Fiji Sun's editor Stan Ritova has a penchant for featuring Pacific Media Watch in his gossip column, Close Up. Recent examples:
Sunday Sun, 7 May 2000:
They're at it again. I couldn't help but smile at a copy of a fax that was passed my way last night.
The topic of the fax - this column!
Yes, this column!
After making an apology for an error that appeared in this paper on Friday, one of our distant relatives across the road, down Laucala way, labelled Close-Up as a gossip column.
A gossip column?
The apology was in good faith.
Anyway this "gossip" column, as this friend prefers to call it, has done some good since it started.
But then again, that's probably gossip to our friend over yonder.
Our man at Laucala appears to have something against the Fiji Sun. What? We do not know?
The gossip is that he's reporting the Fiji Sun to Pacific Media Watch.
Fiji Sun, 16 February 2000:
Ritova's comment about the PMW report on the resignation of the Fiji Sun's editorial board over ethics
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