Five years ago the Pacific Media Centre and Pacific Media Watch published a ‘state of media freedom report’—the first such documentation in the Pacific region—and the most devastating section was about West Papua (Perrottet & Robie, 2011, 2012). The harrowing account of human rights violations and abuses of freedom of speech by the Indonesian military and security forces eclipsed comparable reports from the Pacific, including Fiji which was at the time a cause celebre for free press champions. The theme of this report echoed many articles I have written over the years highlighting the ‘black’ or ‘blind spot’ demonstrated by New Zealand media neglect of covering West Papua and the self-determination cause (see Robie, 2011). Since then much has changed.

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评论：默迪卡：媒体和巴布亚公民抵抗的案例

五年前，太平洋媒体中心和太平洋媒体观察发布了一份“媒体自由状况报告”——太平洋地区的第一份此类文件——最具破坏性的部分是关于西巴布亚 (Perrottet & Robie, 2011, 2012)。印度尼西亚军队和安全部队对侵犯人权和践踏言论自由的令人痛心的描述使太平洋地区的类似报道黯然失色，包括斐济，当时斐济是新闻自由拥护者的名人。这份报告的主题与我多年来撰写的许多文章相呼应，这些文章强调了新西兰媒体忽视西巴布亚和自决事业所表现出的“黑色”或“盲点”（参见 Robie，2011 年）。从那时起，很多事情都发生了变化。