As if the chronic bias of the Fiji Times isn’t bad enough, the national broadcaster, FBC, conspires against the readers of its news website by making them search for stories in an avalanche of commercials.
Mahendra Chaudhry makes an important point about the Prime Minister’s selective approach to the Constitution. Grubsheet said the same thing five days ago in our posting “When the shoe fits only when it suits”.
But here’s a challenge, Readers. Go try and find the detail of Chaudhry’s criticism in the body of the FBC story. It’s buried in a whole lot of commercials selling power tools, chicken coops and granny flats.
FBC is owned by the Fijian people and much of its funding comes from the taxpayer. We understand the need for it to raise further revenue from commercial sources. But is it too much to ask it to keep these ads out of the body of its stories?
If the other commercial broadcaster, CFL-Fiji Village, can do so, why can’t FBC News? The whole thing is becoming a disincentive to visiting the FBC News website.
If anyone likes the challenge of digging for news in a chicken coop, then FBC is the place for you. But it’s enough of a challenge already for most people to dig through the chicken shit that passes for “news” in Fiji without having it rubbed in our faces by the taxpayer-funded FBC.
FOOTNOTE: Would someone at the Fiji Sun please explain why having paid my subscription, I have had the front page for the past two days but no other content? Yes, blank pages for the rest of the paper.
If it’s a technical fault, at least inform readers what is happening.
So that’s why chicken manure ads kept popping up on my phone with FBC news page. I thought my phone had virus
FBC is comparable to chicken manure and Fiji Times to Nabawan Toilet Paper. The quality of journalism in Fiji is depressing.
Nambawan toilet paper is made from recycled Fiji Times I think. Maybe that’s why the similarities.
How the great have fallen in Fiji.
Once a rising star and a journalist I so admired during Covid and elections for her ruthlessness at asking the hard questions now crawls out occasionally to tweet about the government’s achievements and reporting weather news. Maybe she’s too scared to turn her master’s head.
Another online journalist I so ardently followed during the election for his talk shows has become the same. Crawls out to put messages on FB and occasionally praises the Coalition and then crawls back in.
The only people who seen to actually care and tell people what’s happening is Grubshert and Fijileaks.