Stay focused: For Cook Islanders, 2022 started with more rough weather - and a reminder we need independent news. video / alistair macquarie #behindthescenes b y J ason Brown “Fighting fake news, misinformation and disinformation via media literacy”, was one early description for our new press. Feedback from associates, colleagues, friends and family found that description lacking — both negative, and dull. Perhaps, they suggested, a better description might include a vision. Such as “..independent, investigative, islands ..” for example. That one been mulled over for quite some time now. See our informal “ about ” page, written in #behindthescenes styles. Overall, feedback has been cautiously supportive towards this so-far 18 month-long soft launch. Agreement with the relaunch of Cook Islands Press as an idea, but hopes that lessons have been learnt from company insolvency last time. Otherwise? Among Cook Islands communi...