Post Courier and National. Watch Your Newspapers Slowly Be Buried By Vibrant New PNG News Media


Donny Turanaka

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Just like happened during the various university student protests since Peter O’Neill took power, the Post Courier and The National continue giving the impression that they are 100% in back of anyone who is against the students.   They hardly report on anything happening on what is being spoken about at the university forums.  They always seems to be against the students and on the side of the oppressive government of PO.   
The National is 100% owned by Rimbunan Hijau (RH).  RH made billions by bribing its way into getting former forestry ministers such as Patrick Pruaitch and Michael Oglio to give them concessions throughout the country.  They control most of PNG’s logging industry but do very little processing of logs in PNG. They ship it all overseas for processing which earns us very little foreign currency to offset our imports.  
RH took its money and created The National as its propaganda mouthpiece.  RH gave Michael Somare the money he needed to form the 2007 government by giving big presents to 40 MPs using an ANZ bank account set up for the purpose.  
RH built Vision City to keep milking the people of PNG dry and enrichening its pockets.  You want to see the main Papua New Guineans getting lots of money from RH go to the gates of the RH headquarters in Gordons and look at the tinted glass vehicles with the fat cats in the back seat going to make their requests.  
The National has no heart for the people of PNG because its owner, Rimbunan Hijau, has a long history of ripping off village people who were given half baked infrastructure by RH in return for their logs that has now all fallen apart.  
Every time you spend money to buy The National you are helping 1 Chinese Malaysian family who owns the company to become richer and richer.  They are already amongst the richest Malaysians.  

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The Post Courier is little better than The National these days.  It too tries to do as little reporting as possible on any activities by students to stand up against Peter O’Neill.   It repeatedly publishes media releases by the O’Neill government without question or comment.  It has become a mouthpiece of the government.   During the UOG student boycott, it ran as few stories as possible to inform the nation what the students were fighting for.  The same was true with the UNRE boycott against their corrupt VC.   The students boycotted for weeks yet there were no stories by the Post Courier.   During the PNGUOT boycott of 2014, the Post Courier ignored the students viewpoints or providing any stories about why the students were boycott for weeks.   The students had to go outside to social media and Radio New Zealand to make their voices heard because PNG media, apart from EMTV, were so obviously against giving the students equal time to give their side of things.
The Post Courier is owned mostly by superannuation funds.   The funds are only interested in making money, which is fair enough considering what the money will be used for.  But the superannuation funds obscenely overpay their top executives.   None of that money gets to the retirees.    The superannuation funds place making money in the short run first, and contributing to the accurate education of Papua New Guineans in distant far back place.  
Every time you buy a copy of the Post Courier, you are giving your vote of approval to their change in strategy several years back to do as little investigative reporting as possible.  Your money to the Post Courier rewards its unstated policy of never challenging the government through hard questions of seasoned reporters.  

This is the truth of the matter about our two national daily toilet papers.   However, each day when I look at how many members there are of PNG Blogs, Voice of PNG, The PNG News Page, and so many other social media pages that report EVERY DETAIL about the issues that the National and Post Courier are covering up, I smile.   I smile because I look at their own nearly dead silent web sites.   Fewer Papua New Guineans even bother to go over there any more.  The most important articles they print are quickly copied and pasted over to the active social media sites.   Then the social media contributors fill in all the details and give us the other stories that the daily newspapers won’t tell us about.  
Social media is the future.   The Post Courier and National haven’t caught the wave.   They will slowly come to be ignored as the electronic age progresses and end up struggling for their lives like other print media throughout the world.   God be blessed for that fate.    The 2 newspapers who only think about their profits and propaganda and never about true investigative reporting that gives the truths, good, bad and ugly to the people of Papua New Guinea are slowly dying.   God be blessed, God be blessed.   

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