Comments on: Award Winning Citizen Journalism – Looking back at 2008

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:49:05 +0000

Groundviews,

Thank you for putting together a "best of 2008" post and for running a well functioning website with interesting and unique content.

Regards,

Raj

By: Lolita

Lolita — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:57:51 +0000

i agree with freddi on certain issue –
1. dayan seems to be the only writer who seems to be a journalist which is taking a different view, so it seems that citizen writers here are skewed to a NGO based view – hopefully we a avrage of citizen writers in 2009.

2. wonder how many moderators are there. it might be better to have multipl moderators as it will allow greater discussion. for exaample if only one moderator – he can act god and deleat /crop on the comments, ideally lets not hog the editorial seat as citizens who's monitoring the montioners? (i.e. like the FMM situation )

3. if a person used groundview name to write he/she should not indicate a bias as the site loosed appeal. (e.g "cities in the North and the “liberated” Eastern Province.) quoted from above article – the inverts at liberated" look a bit sarca? why does the site have to take a view. the site should be neutral if the moderator wish to take a side , he?she should comment under his/her name..

lol looking forward for a another year of supporrting comments for Dayan

GO DJ

By: freddy Gamage

freddy Gamage — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:48:32 +0000

when we compare with other NGO related web site, i agree , groundviews updates very openly.
its a good sign, and in the recent past i saw the GV reporters such as Rasika is doing a good job in covering Colombo based civil events.

but still i have few negative comments.

1. is it true that GV is operating without donor funding,?

2.I strongly opposed when you worded that your site is citizen journalism site, i have noticed very openly that you have published lot articles who are no citizen journalist. i questioned how many real citizen journalist are involved in your site.

3. if we wont satisfied ourselves by saying so, its no problem be happy, but when its come as a public docs, we have to follow the basic ethics.

any how , i invite you to continue the struggle in developing a real citizen journalist blog., we will surely join with you in this struggle since we are already struggling,

Freddy Gamage

By: Sanjana Hattotuwa

Sanjana Hattotuwa — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:11:39 +0000

Dear Freddy,

I'm glad you decided to write in almost exactly a year after your first comment. Thank you for your kind words on Groundviews and Rasika’s work with Vikalpa, which in my mind is more significant.

A year ago you wrote in to Groundviews and said,

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A year on and sadly, you say nothing new. Ergo,my response to you also remains the same.

I trust that a year hence you will not come up again with the same set of grievances and strongly encourage you to get in touch so that you learn from our experience. Meepura on the web, in Sinhala and English in particular, looks desperately in need of some professional help which we will be pleased to provide.

Sanjana