Smear Campaigns and dirty tactics: But who’s funding Koim’s litigation?

By PNG Echo Smear campaigns always smack of desperation.   But a smear campaign against a journalist…? That must be the epitome of desperation.   But that’s what’s happened in PNG in the past week. Certain anti-government forces have a near social media monopoly where they attempt to control and manipulate their followers with practises such as saturation, social engineering, audience packing and censorship of opposing opinions. The use of fake identities and the courting of the loony fringe are some of their other questionable tactics. But to attack another journalist…? It’s a ham-fisted attempt at censorship of the media (other than Continue reading Smear Campaigns and dirty tactics: But who’s funding Koim’s litigation?

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The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

By PNG Echo Then… Sam Koim started his legal career, at the end of 2008, as an employed lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General. He rose quickly (within three years) to national – even international – prominence. Koim owes his meteoric rise, at least the start of it, to his friendship with Sam Basil. Indeed it was Basil, then Minister for National Planning in the O’Neill/Namah government, who, in 2011, put in a submission to the NEC for the establishment of Task Force Sweep (TFS) with Koim at the helm. At the time, Koim had only two years Continue reading The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

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