Title:Media coverage of Cambodia - 1975 to 1991Submitted by: Walter Burgess B.A. (Asian Studies) Honours, M.A.The paper looks at how the media covered events during the April 1975 to January 1979 period under the Pol Pot regime and also the following period until 1991 under the Vietnamese installed Heng Samrin/Hun government. The paper examines braodly in general non-specific terms, how the media covered Cambodia during the Pol Pot Regime. There were at least four non-communist newsmen who braved the dangers and crossed into Cambodia and recorded material for publication in the Western media. Most of the coverage came from Bangkok, either from "old Indochina hands" or by media arriving for a short trip and a quick story. Other material came through government sources, either US (usually CIA), Soviet (KGB) or Vietnamese, all of which was antagonistic towards the the regime in Phnom Penh and therefore dubious in accuracy. The main conclusion of the paper is that the majority of the reporting of Cambodia between 1975 and 1991 was negative and frequently highly inaccurate.
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