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Sri Lanka’s political landscape is distinguished by an oddity not evidenced to that unnerving extent elsewhere in this region, even with all its considerable turbulence. kishali How the jaundiced citizen sees it This oddity is that despite an increasingly uncertain economic future as the rupee free falls to unfathomable depths and law and order falters […]

Four cases filed against former Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) Chairman Ariyaratne Athugala, its former Additional Director General Devapriya Abeysinghe and G.D. Sugathapala for allegedly threatening and assaulting four SLRC employees in 2010, were yesterday fixed for trial by the Colombo Chief Magistrate. When the four separate cases were taken up before Chief Magistrate Gihan […]

State owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLRC) has promoted 15 supporters of the ruling coalition Sri Lanka Freedom Party reports Sri Lanka Mirror. The SLM reports follows: Employees of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation are disturbed by the sudden promotions given to 15 activists of the SLFP-affiliate Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya, according to reports reaching Sri […]

Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe has criticized the media over its conduct during the Rajapaksa regime. In other words, is blaming the victim for the rape. At the Thai Pongal festival in Jaffna, he accused the media of ‘going shopping’ for the infamous 18th Amendment and warned the media not to spoil the ongoing constitutional process. […]

LankaNewsWeb has published the editorial written by Mr. Dinesh Weerawansa, editor of the state controlled weekend The Observer to be published in case former President Rajapaksha would have won the election on 8th January. The editorial shows the level of politicization of the state media in Sri Lanka. Mr. Weerawansha has not denied the news […]

Free Media Movement (FMM) said that a substantial change in state media institutions will not take place merely by changing the Head of Media The movement asserted that even though the Heads of Media were changed, no major policy change has taken place yet. FMM Convener Sunil Jayasekera said that the biggest challenge the new […]

Given below is an analysis of the spaces, provided for candidates of the presidential election in the front page, and in the news continued in an inner page printed and published by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon(ANCL) in Sinhala, Tamil and English from the 20th to 26th December 2014. A qualitative analysis developed based on the […]

{Rajpal abeynayake] The editor of the state controlled Daily News, Rajpal Abeynayake, has apologised to all pigs after  calling a  Muslim MP  “a pig”. In a tweet Mr. abeynayake called former Minster Rishard Bathiudeen  pig after cross over  to the common opposition. Two of his tweets follows:  

Editorial, The Sunday Observer Some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and their funding agents in International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) have acted in the most unbecoming manner in Sri Lanka. They even played a sinister role during Sri Lanka’s relentless battle against terrorism from 2006 till mid-2009. Certain countries which project themselves as the godfathers of democracy do […]

Bertolt Brecht The state run weekend newspaper, ‘Silumina’. has withheld its supplement ‘Shasthreeya Athirekeya’ this week, over an article on strong political undercurrents of Bertolt Brecht’s stage plays. The article, which was published as the cover story of the ‘Shaasthriya Athirekaya’, discusses as to how Bertolt Brecht’s plays are of relevance to societies whose political […]

Media Release/National Peace council PUBLIC INTEREST OR PERSONAL VENDETTA? LET THE READERS DECIDE What can be said about someone naked who steals the clothes of his opponent and parades them as his own to hide his own nakedness? The Editor of the Daily News has shamelessly misappropriated the statements used by the National Peace Council […]

Editor puts his leg in the mouth  ” The Editor of the Daily News seems to be all mixed up about the American War of Independence which took place from 1775-1783 and the American Civil War which took place a century later in 1861-64, between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from […]

Rallied to promote terrorism,Trying to destabilize country’s reconciliation process – Daily News In passing numerous resolutions and adopting them in the Northern Provincial Council demanding the withdrawal of the ban imposed by Sri Lanka on foreign terrorist organizations and individuals that have links with the Tamil Diaspora, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members have committed […]

Here  is the post on the MOD site this morning now taken out. See Srilanka brief note posted this morning with the heading :Arresst of HRDs in Sri Lanka: Misinformtion campaign begins  ”We reprodse an news item form state controlled Daily news which is full of lies.  ‘Ruki Fernando and Fr, Praveen have never been […]

DEFENDING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF TERRORISTSEditorial / State Daily News, 19 March 2014All sanctimonious humbugs in the non governmental ‘humanitarian’ organizations are furiously tapping their desktop and ipad keyboards sending off self righteous tracts to the media about what they refer to as the arrests of human rights defenders at a time the UN HRC […]

Hudson Samarasinghe by Nimalka FernandoOn the 4th of November 2013 I was contacted by many friends and relatives urging me to listen to Hudson Samarasinghe’s radio program on a state radio channel. I normally don’t listen to Hudson’s program because I perceive it to be low grade cheap propaganda by a producer who has self […]

Dr. Nimalka Fernando The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Sri Lanka. Description of the information: The Observatory has received with great concern information from reliable […]

Nimalka Fernando Complaint made to the HRC-SL and IGP by Dr. Nimalka Fernando The radio programme titled Rata Yana Atha (The way country is forging ahead) broadcasted in the Commercial Channel of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation on 4th November 2013 was based on a voice cut given by me to the Hiru TV to […]

Sr Lanka: lawyers protest against undermining independence of judiciary A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commissiondem In her media statement from Colombo on 31 August 2013, Dr. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, “I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the […]

Navinathem Pillai the UN High Commissioner’s prejudices have long been clear, but they have never been clearer than after her recent visit to this country. But, that’s not unusual. To use the figurative, in certain species, they are never known to change their spots. The reaction at the end of her tour was so expected […]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka   A spectre is haunting Sri Lanka: the spectre of Cyril Mathew. Are the Tamils of the Western Province regarded as potential hostages in the event of a TNA victory in the Northern Provincial Council and a legitimate assertion of Constitutional rights by that Council? Is a veiled threat being issued through the […]

12 August 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and its Executive Director filed a complaint (Complaint No: HRC/3083/13) before the Human Rights Commissions of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) this afternoon against the Independent Television Network of Sri Lanka (ITN) and its Chairmen. The complaint was on the basis that a news item […]

Cartoon-LS S.L.Gunasekara  I had the doubtful ‘pleasure’ of reading the document entitled “The Code of Media Ethics” circulated among various media institutions by the Ministry of Mass Media and Information which left me with two choices – to laugh or to cry. As it happened, I did neither. So furious was I that this Government […]

FOCUS In what precise manner can a fantastically unethical Government prescribe a Code of Ethics for the media? This is a highly relevant question given recent bombastic claims by the Government Spokesman that a draft Bill on Media Ethics is being circulated prior to implementation.State media devoid of ethicsThis Government has proved itself to be […]

Hon. Speaker,I wish to raise an issue of breach of privilege, where my reputation as an honorable member of this august assembly is at stake. I have been a Member of Parliament continuously for over 19 years & at no time I have behaved in a manner that has brought disrepute to myself or the […]

Cartoon by Prageeth Eknaligoda, who was abduted and made to  disapper 3 years ago Hana Ibrahim The Department of Police is the country’s chief law enforcement authority. When its spokesperson comes each and every day before the mass media and relates the numerous activities and their surrounding circumstances to the public, he is taken at […]

Lawyers of Sri Lanka’s top judge Shirani Bandaranayake today accused the government of running “an organized series of programmes” in state electronic media targeting the Chief Justice, the Judiciary and leading lawyers.They said said government spin doctors are involved in these “baseless propaganda programmes”.“It is abundantly clear that these are not isolated attacks but meticulously […]

 It is with shock and dismay that we have observed an organized series of programmes in State electronic media targeting the Chief Justice, the Judiciary and leading lawyers who are challenging the Impeachment. We have particularly noted that Ministers Rajitha Senaratne, Wimal Weerawansa and well known hate campaigners Rajpal Abeynayaka and Hudson Samarasinghe – all […]

John Marshall became one of the most influential leaders of the era of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States. Basil FernandoIn today’s ( December 24) SLBC program, most inappropriately called “People’s Power” – a better name would have been “A Voice from the Political Gutters” – Rajpal Abeynayake, the commentator, labeled […]