The Pronunciation of Samoa.

I noticed during the England v Samoa rugby match that the determination of commentators to pronounce "Samoa" with the stress on the first syllable continues intermittently. They lapse, however, from time to time into the old stressed "o" version, as if it came more naturally to them. Meanwhile the rugby men in the studios, and the coaches and players in the post-match interviews, still emphasize the "o" quite unselfconsciously. The result is inconsistency.

I don't doubt that stressing the first syllable is correct, and courteous to the Samoans, who probably pronounce it that way themselves, but it comes so unnaturally, and has such an effect, in my opinion, of pedantry, that I'd like to see this lame campaign dropped. After all, we don't prnounce "Paris" as the French do, or "Copenhagen" as the Danes do, and there's no campaign to change that state of affairs.
Additionally, it's not just "Samoa" that we have to pronounce differently now, but "Samoan" and "Samoans" into the bargain. But what is the betting that these derivatives aren't Samoan words at all, but Englishisms resulting from the logic of the English language? If that is the case then these new pronunciations may be as inauthentic as the old ones.
Peasemarch.