Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
(updates with Sky and Channel 4 positions)
LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The British government urged the BBC on Saturday to drop its refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for victims of the war in Gaza.
The BBC said the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a coalition of 13 aid ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
In an analysis of the media scene in Sri Lanka today Victor Ivan, Editor of Ravaya exposes how sections of the media while exposing corruption and abuse in society and calling for transparency and openness, suppress information of such malpractices that take place in media organizations. The article also alludes ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
'Food for thought' for the minority advocating Internet regulation in Sri Lanka
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Worries that the Internet and social networking services like MySpace pose a threat to child safety may be overblown, a report by industry, academics and technology experts suggests.
The report, which will be released on Wednesday, suggests ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
"No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
FREEDOM at NADIR
Lindsay Ross, former Executive Director, Commonwealth Press Union, London:
"There’ll be a lot of sound and fury over the brutal slaying of well known editor Lasantha Wickrematunge but in the end it will signify nothing, warns , who looks at the frightening trend of media suppression in Sri Lanka
With ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
The main opposition in Sri Lanka has accused sections of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) of carrying out attacks on media.
Leader of the opposition and the United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickramasinghe, said many SLA personnel are "appalled" by the actions of a few.
"Security forces say that the whole country will ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Four major media organisations this week reaffirmed their commitment to the 1998 Colombo Declaration on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility following an international seminar that was held in October last year to re-visit the Charter, says Sunday Times on 04/01/2009. Read the full article here.
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