The following was submitted to the Fiji Sun for publication as a reply to Graham’s column of Sunday. As the column was reprinted from this blog, however, I feel it is appropriate to post the reply as a blog comment as well, which will also open it up to response by Graham and others. But first I must thank Graham for getting such a lively … [Read more...] about # 73 DOCTOR EDGE RESPONDS
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#71 EDGE OF REALITY
Sometimes in a long career in journalism - and Grubsheet has been a scribe for nigh on 40 years – one reads or hears an account of an event at which one was present that bears so little resemblance to reality that one’s jaw drops in utter astonishment. So it was with the account given to Radio Australia on Thursday by Dr Marc Edge –the … [Read more...] about #71 EDGE OF REALITY
#YET ANOTHER SELF INFLICTED KHAIYUM DISASTER
As my old Grubsheet sparring partner, Dr Marc Edge, observed in the wake of the attack on me by the Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, on Sunday, "there is no such thing as bad publicity", and so it has proved to be. I would like to say that I can scarcely believe the ineptitude of the Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, in encouraging the PM to … [Read more...] about #YET ANOTHER SELF INFLICTED KHAIYUM DISASTER
# ECONOMIES WITH THE TRUTH (UPDATED 12/5)
The Government’s cyber critics have been blindsided by the announcement that all three former major political parties – Labour, the National Federation Party and SODELPA, the former SDL – have been cleared to contest the 2014 election. The declaration by the Registrar of Elections, Mohammed Saneem, that all three entities had cleared the hurdle … [Read more...] about # ECONOMIES WITH THE TRUTH (UPDATED 12/5)
# YET ANOTHER “TRAVERSTY” OF THE TRUTH
There are increasing signs of desperation among the anti-government forces in Fiji as the country moves closer to the introduction of a brand of democracy that they are desperately trying to prevent - a non-racial model of one person, one vote, one value. That sense of desperation has reached fever pitch with the publication of the new Draft … [Read more...] about # YET ANOTHER “TRAVERSTY” OF THE TRUTH
# GLOVES OFF OVER USP JOURNALISM
UPDATED FEBRUARY 4TH AS DAVID ROBIE BRANDS MARC EDGE A LIAR: Grubsheet is bored to distraction with the antics of Marc Edge, the academic poseur who was forced to resign as head of journalism at the University of the South Pacific after repeated complaints of misconduct. But we're returning to the vomit - the only apt description for Edge's … [Read more...] about # GLOVES OFF OVER USP JOURNALISM