Samoa tsunami aid disaster report now under fire in Mediawatch episode
Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Courtney Wilson
Campbell Live’s controversial report about Samoa’s “missing aid funds” one year on from the tsunami disaster has already attracted a complaint from the Samoan government to New Zealand’s broadcasting regulatory body. Now it has also been under fire on Radio NZ’s Mediawatch.
While TV3 has vigorously defended the original programme on September 27 and a follow-up on November 1, Campbell Live’s reporting of the issue and the “door-stopping” of Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi in Samoa two weeks ago faced criticism by Samoan journalists at a regional media freedom conference in Apia.
Campbell Live last Monday again asked: “Where has the tsunami relief money gone?” Read more »

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