The Drug dealer
talking about helping to get kids off of drugs!
The Nation a slavishly pro Government Rag has the nerve to talk about Media Freedom and
the FMM attempts at educating journalists on responsibilities of journalists to
their readership.
It was particularly
appalling of the Nation on Sunday, 3rd November issue to talk about the
recent deportation of the Asia Pacific Director of the International Federation
of Journalists, a highly recognized internationally renowned organization representing
journalists. http://www.nation.lk/edition/editorial/item/22438-prostituting-media-freedom.html
Prostituting media freedom by foot, it is like the pot calling the kettle black, who prostitutes Media freedom, and pays lip service other than rogues defending rogues. Ask you boss, how much he paid for 45% of Packers casino, the answer is zilch and a free license when it should be sold to him by the Country for over US$1B, so who is kidding whom?
It said that the journalist was here illegally to attend a FMM workshop,
as she had not got her business visa and travelled on a tourist visa. Helo, editor
of the Nation since when have you become so legalistic in a country without rules,
to throw the book at her, when it is common the world over when one comes for a
week or two to any country to come on a tourist visa when it is easy, and not as
complicated and time consuming and in this instance the only way to come to Sri
Lanka for such an event!!!
I am not condoning law
breaking but what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander. After all
dear editor/writer as if you did not know your own owners representative in the
illegal casino deal James Packer also came to Sri Lanka to meet the authorities
on a tourist visa, when he clearly came on business and we all know what kind of
business that is.
Please don’t try to
preach to us. After all your owner runs a Casino that is NOT licensed and you have
the gall the balls and straight face to tell cast aspersions at others. Hey double
standards is a part of Sri Lankan life and in your case you ought to be the last
to preach, constantly defending a regime that is indefensible, corrupt, megalomaniacal
and destructive towards a United Sri Lanka. You cant see it because you are part
of the problem.
It is a devil of a job
for a young journalist to write what is right! Especially in the national interest
as it is certainly not in the Nation’s interest. Your paper is outwardly biased
and that is OK with me, but don’t go preaching about media freedom and FMM being
in the pocket of those who you are against.
I don’t like the way
the FMM is run in SL, and it needs to be cleaned up. Not by your interference but
by that of honest hardworking journalists who care for their country, and their
freedom to report as it is not what MARA’s goons want,like you.
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