The Batagoda commission will shortly
report on the incidents of a few weeks back, where the Media showed, excessive
use of force on seemingly unarmed and innocent female undergraduates!
As I reported at length in this blog,
what is portrayed by the media, for their own agenda, is NOT what is the real
story, and people MUST always, view media reports, especially in Sri Lanka with
a lot of skepticism.
We remember we got used to towards the
end of the Rakapakse regime, NOT to believe anything that came out of the Govt.
media, as we believed it was heavily biased. We must continue to hold that
level of skepticism, as the Media will not change overnight, and until the
quality of journalism rises to a certain level, we will continue to be fed a
load of Trollope!
The Batagoda Report will have called all
the evidence of the event. NOT just what the media showed us. You will be told,
that the media had selective amnesia. I
hope the video of undergraduates, in Buddhist robes, claiming to be Budddhist
priests, beating innocent policemen mercilessly with poles and their bear hands
will also be shown. WHY WERE THEY NOT SHOWN? Because the media angle will then
be completely annulled!
Shame on our uneducated youth, who
showed and shared the infamous two photos on FB, without showing the other 98
that give a different picture! When will our youth become really educated if at
all? I am actually ashamed (lajjai!) at the complete idiocy of our young people
who behave like a herd of donkeys, when they should try and ascertain the truth,
or at least take some information with a pinch of salt knowing the whole story is
NOT being shown.
Read my earlier blogs! http://pattapalboru.blogspot.com/2015/11/police-media-students-all-in-game-to.html
Until the General Public take it into their
ownership, the view that the Media needs to be transformed into something less than
sensational, and more on informing on the facts, allowing different sides of the
story to be told side by side, there is NO future for directing people to make up
their minds on the true picture. This is NOT a problem limited to Sri Lanka, as
the Media coverage of the Paris carnage also shows, it is that the populations in
those countries are less gullible than ours in thinking for themselves, and have
different angles from which a situation can be presented to them, something that
is still lacking here.
I have always thought that the students who get a University Education passing off as Buddhist Priests, use the system to get all the benefits and perks, and do not get identified as the terrorists in our midst.
ReplyDeleteThey are the radicalized lot who have NO PLACE in our society, and unless they are neutralized, the consequences of our inaction now will be felt for decades hence.
The answer is to put them all on a watch list, get their bios, and select those who are most likely to brainwash our youth into a bygone ideology, aimed at taking this Country backwards, in a similar fashion to today's IS in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere.