Since its inception Ceylon
Today, and its Sinhala bed mate, Mawbima has been a Rajapakse memorial,
starting on the Presidents birthday in Nov 2011, and had pretended to Sarath Fonseka
that it was partial to his cause. At the same time it had vilified the Leader
of the Opposition, with lies from the very outset.
They appear to employ
Journalists of questionable repute, and this was proved when some senior
journalists left in disgust when it was shown that whilst pretending to allow
them journalistic freedom, they really were just asked to tow the line of the
owners, Tiran Alles and possibly Maharajas.
So it was the height of
absurdity today for its editorial to complain about freedom of the press, when
it was banned from reporting UNP activities on the 13th on the
orders of the UNP leader.
It was therefore doubly
hilarious when they used the Editorial to castigate the Opposition leader as
one who suppresses Media Freedom, when this rag has clearly and unequivocally
overstepped Journalistic decency by engaging in lies and innuendo, especially
against the opposition leader.
This case of sour grapes
when they felt miffed at being turfed out of the proceedings is just an
indication of its jokers in high office. Not of journalistic freedoms being
infringed. After all they are welcome to report any trash they wish, and they
seem to make up stories as they go along. It is just a matter of time the paper
will cease to print due in part to the absurdity of its editors prejudices
against the UNP in general and its leader in particular, except that there is
tacit support for Sajith Premadasa as a means of getting back at their personal
grudges.
The UNP assistant leader
Joseph Michael Perera also had his own take on this same media institution, and
interestingly cast doubt on whether it should be treated as a media
institution. I let the reader judge for himself.
Wasting an editorial to
complain is silly considering the crises facing the people of Sri Lanka. So
let’s hope they can grow out of this and become a respectable media
institution, worthy of being called one. Only then will they be taken seriously
and in the end have a chance of survival in this tough trading time when only
lies seem to get past the censor and the truth hidden, for the long suffering
public to realize on their own as part of their daily struggles for existence
in this utopia.
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