Creative Rebellion in Fiji

The Fijian media has got creative to protest against extensive censorship by the new military regime. The Fiji Times has run blank pages with the sentence: "the stories on this page could not be published due to Government restrictions" while the Fiji Daily Post ran a story about a man getting on a bus and another watching paint drying on Wednesday. The Daily Post story quotes a source named Max: "It just went on wet, but after about four hours, it started to dry". In another story, a headline reads: "Man gets on bus". The story goes on to quote an anonymous source: "It was easy." And: "I just lifted one leg up and then the other and I was on".