Posted on 11/16/2008 7:21:19 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
SIMMERING tensions mixed with alcohol have been blamed for Papua New Guinea's media night of nights turning into an all-in brawl.
The 2008 PNG Media Council awards ceremony on Saturday night erupted in a fight requiring Port Moresby hotel security to step in and pull apart scrapping guests.
The fight came late in the proceedings, after speeches on the importance of media freedom and accurate reporting.
Fighting between staff at PNG's Post-Courier newspaper, owned by News Limited, and colleagues from PNG's National Broadcasting Corporation marred what was generally considered a successful evening.
"It is embarrassing," one attendee said.
"This stuff always happens at this end of year. Everything starts fine, but it all comes out with too much drink.
"It really is the silly season. Staff get drunk and then there will be a fight at the office Christmas party. All the simmering tensions erupt."
The media awards night was the culmination of a week-long Media Council program to raise industry standards.
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I thought it was the BET awards..my bad.
I was staying at a SF, CA airport hotel years ago that was the reception location for a Samoan wedding. WOW!
About 11:00 PM the Samoan “Clans” decided to settle disputs.
There was 30 PD units in the parking lot before it was all over put under control. Now that’s having FUN!
Take a look at Samoan NFC players -— built like safes!
weeg to our own liberal media establishment: New Guinea is upping their journalistic standards, Up Yours!
...weeg to our own liberal media establishment: New Guinea is upping their journalistic standards, Up Yours!
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Good point! Maybe there is a message here....
The words “accurate reporting” will set them off everytime.
The words “accurate reporting” will set them off everytime.
SIMMERING tensions mixed with alcohol have been blamed for Papua New Guinea's media night of nights turning into an all-in brawl.
Alcohol-shrunken heads alert.
We were there (PNG) in the mid-1970s. When we were up in the Highlands, in Goroka, they wouldn’t allow us to go outside at night because of the paybacks. The next day, we were on _the_ paved road and there was a tree across it, with a group of very grumpy older men with ornaments in their noses, lap-laps and a$$ grass, milling around. At the next town (Chimbu?), there was an Aussie physician who told us he had a great collection of war arrows, all designed to go in easily and not come out without destroying tissue. Today, three of them are on my living room wall. My husband was incensed that he had to have them cut in half to be allowed on the airplane back to Sydney.
So, now they have media awards? Only in Moresby, though? I can’t imagine the rest of the country has changed all that much. It is a beautiful place, so varied. Please don’t tell me it looks like gated cmmunities, suburbs and resorts.
communities.
Is one of the categories “Log-Drumming”?
Is one of the categories “Log-Drumming”?
It wasn’t that great a question. So why’d I ask it twice????
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