He recorded broadcasts, sat in newsrooms, met the people who ran the stations and those who listened. There are still some reflections of the BBC on local radio throughout the Pacific but national public service broadcasting is changing and fading fast, supplementing its funds with commercials or, in Tonga, a Radio Store which sells and repairs electric and electronic appliances. Other stations sell studio time - or parts of the service have been privatised.
Most island states have little reporting of crime in radio news.
In a week of listening to the news via, say, Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, only two or three crimes might get reported. Offences do occur but as any visiting journalist from Australia, New Zealand or western countries discovers quickly, news values are different. There is enough material for two books. It comes with glossary, detailed referencing and footnotes, also 10-page index.