EA r r AN D$ ommunTeaUon j¬wskte9r Pacific Islands News Association Suva, Fiji Social Sciences & Linguistics Institute Honolulu, Hawaii East-West Communication Institute Honolulu, Hawaii June 1976 Vol. 6, No. 2 kvzk-tv offer TV STATION FOR WESTERN SAMOA? Exploratory discussions by Anderson would not elaborate to three, has no use for the the United States have been held on the specifics of the talks be- equipment and apparently could not to consider giving Western Samoa tween the U.S. and Western Samoa. sell the black-and-white station without charge a complete tele- P1CM has also learned that KVZK is elsewhere because the equipment is vision station now located in considering a similar offer to aging and obsolete. All KVZK American Samoa. According to Tonga. However, when questioned programming is now in color. Jon A. Anderson, general manager about that offer, Anderson would of KVZK-TV in Pago Pago, the only say that formal negotiations management of the American-run between Tonga and the United States television station is willing have not been held. He noted to provide engineers to set up all talks were in a very preliminary NEW BROADCASTING the station and will also train stage. Western Samoans to operate the equipment. The station under consideration was originally a part of the Samoan MANAGER FOR TONGA All Western Samoa has to do Instructional Television Project is say yes and prepare a site, begun in the mid-1960's in American Anderson told P1CM in Honolulu in Samoa. KVZK-TV, which has cut Sione Tu'itavake Fusimalohi May. back programming from six channels will be the new manager of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission, replacing D id Porter RESPONSIBILITYIN PRESS FIJI Fusimalohi, for 10 years an By Lasarusa Vusoniwailalaor roughly50,000 more than Fijians. announcer for TBC, was graduated in The history of cultural sepa-communication from the University ration between the two races is of Hawaii on May 16 this year. He The present structure of thelong. The Indians came to Fiji as has been studying at the University mass media in Fiji is highlighted indentured labourers for the sugar since 1972. He planned to return by the lack of communication be- cane fields.They lived in huts by to Tonga with his family June 5, tween the two major races--the the farms whilethe native Fijians and then work with Porter for sev- Fijians and the Indians. They corn- lived in their traditional village eral weeks before Porter leaves. prise 94% of Fiji's population with communities. The British Adminis- The announcement of the appointment the Indians comprising about 51%,(continued page 8) was made just prior to Fusinialohis graduation. (continued page 2) fr/14/?/A1166 1-uGH 'CtJOQL WHAT'S INSIDE Editor's Notes 2 OBJER VEX Paper Folds 3 Fiji Movies 4 TT Broadcasting 1O PINA Experience on high school newspapers, such as the Marianas High School 12 Observer is one of the primary means of journalism training in the Trust Territory. For the full story on training in Micronesia, turn to page 3. Fusimalohi Ncw EDITC'S 17lu'JES Broadcast Hcad Jim Richstad (continued from page 1) Fusimalohi attended a six-week Pacific Islands Radio F)evelopment Seminar at the East-West Coumiunica- tion Institute at the East-West American Samoa is the focus of that failed, arid the woman who start- Center.in 1971. two important articles in this is- ed it two years ago, and the condi- sue of the Pacific Islands Communi- tions under which she left Samoa. cation Newsletter. Both the stories There is a groat mix of personal should provoke discussion, each in matters in the situation that devel- their own way. oped, but there is no denying that the newspaper is no longer publish- ing. How closely the incidents are tied cannot be assessed with any The first concerns the offer certainty. It is an extremely to give Western Samoa a television difficult story to report from station that is surplus in American Samoa. Talks are very preliminary at this point but never-the-less Honolulu, and P1CM had to rely on under way. PICN editors learned the Underground Monthly account of of this development late last year, its demise and two articles in the from various sources, and tried to Honolulu Star-Bulletin on the mat- ter. We also talked with persons SE!: AR!' IC LES ON PAGE 1 & 5 who had been in American Samoa recently. And, to add another bit get enough information to write an of news from American Samoa, the article for the March issue of P1CM. Samoan Sun has been discontinued, We talked with Jon Anderson and Bob but on more routine economic SIONF: T1'II'A\AKA FISIMA 10!H Berger about the article, but it grounds. was felt then (February) that the Fusirnalohi is 37 years old and talks were too preliminary. They was born in Tonga. He spent a year in New Zealand at school may still feel it is too early But we have lots of good news high and to publicize the developuients, and in this issue. One in particular another year attending an observa- we had to think that one over. In that is pleasing is the selection tion course with the New Zealand the end, we felt the story was too of Tavake Fusimalohi as manager of Broadcasting Corporation. He was the Tonga Broadcasting Commission. educated at Tonga High School and important o let sit for another We have known Tavake since 1971 when Auckland Grammar School. He plays issue; that what was happening was he came to Hawaii to attend the rugby football and tennis. important to both the people of the Pacific Islands Radio Training Sem- His wife, Keiti, and he have 11.5. and Western Samoa, and perhaps tour children. to other nations in the Pacific. So we ran two articles: The front inar at the Communication Institute PACIFIC ISIANDS page article concerns the facts as The experience was catching, and torllvl1N1C\'rtoN Nl:\vSlE'FrF:lt we could put them together, the the next year he showed up on his second is an opinion piece by own in Honolulu ready to begin the Pub! islii Curtis Madison, a graduate student study of communication--first at at the University of Hawaii and Leeward Community College and then 3SOCkIl Srivioes It I inguisi ira Inst. also is a degree scholar with the at the University of Hawaii. The odds were mightily against him, Donald SI. lopping, I)irerioi I3orieos 11:11!, ti1i\&isi1v I lion:i Communication Institute. Madison, Honolulu, I Ia\ a whose article on telephone develop- and there were many times when it in Western Samoa in did not seem like he could caniy ment appeared Editorial 51:111 the March jJ, raises some very it through. But with hard deter- basic questions about giving a mination on his part, strong sup- Editor: Jim Riclistad television station--and particular- port from his wife, Keiti, and ly the one that would be given-- backing from Professor John Bystrom ASSI sta ft Editor: Floyd TaRcuehi to Western Samoa. He objects on at the University of Hawaii, and SjieeiaI A asi slant: Curtis Madison several grounds. We don't think encouragement from many, many one but we others, the were overcome, his view is the only problems Address all correspondence to: think the issues he raises have to and he was graduated May 16. His be addressed. We welcome other appointment puts one more Pacific The Editor, PICN comments Island broadcasting system under the direction of a Pacific Islander, East -West Communication Inst. The other story from American and we offer our warmest congratu- 1777 East-West Road Samoa is a sad one, of a newspaper lations and encouragement to hint. Honolulu, 1!awai i 96822 want to get 'involved" anymore. "I just want to open a little lesion aid stand in Guam where I can settle down quietly and write down every- UNDERGROUND PRESS FINISHED thing that happened." The Underground Press published Controversial Sherry The Underground has undergone many, in an 8-by--FO--inch format, and had O'Sullivan and her two-year--old many terrible experiences at the a circulation estimated at 1,500. Underground Press are no longer in hands of these people in power... 0 Sullivan said the paper was making American Samoa. The Titanic' but...when I realized that the a profit in its last few months. issue of the Underground Press was very people I have been trying to issued as the Underground Monthly protect and inform... either TT JOURNALISM and appeared on April , the anni- haven't listened or don't care... versary of the sinking of the then, what is the use? Titanic. O'Sullivan's account of TRAINING SCARCE the events which led to her leaving By Floyd Takeuchi American Samoa comprises most of She went on to accuse the the issue's copy. She does not hide Government of American Samoa of Formal journalism training in her bitterness and sarcasm. She being unwilling to prosecute her the Trust Territory is limited to arrived in Honolulu about May 1. case and the Samoan people of being small programs in the educational unfair to American citizens. 'Until system, according to Steve Woodworth a respect for privacy, respect for and Elias Thomas of Saipan. In a Apparently because of personal individuality and a respect for per- recent PEACESAT program between --not newspaper--differences between sonal achievement is established in Saipan and Honolulu, Woodworth, a O'Sullivan and the members of an American Samoa," O'Sullivan said, Peace Corps Volunteer at the she was, in her words, "you ..