Something really wrong with traditional local media outlets is that they are not on demand. They haven’t caught up with technology. Secondly, most of those journalists are on a Rajapkse payroll, or scared to death so they won’t write anything truly insightful. Third, there isn’t enough talent and brain in it. People who have the talent do other stuff. Just look at Groundviews. Most of the contributors aren’t professional journalists, but they write better articles than those that appear on Sinhala newspapers. It’s just ridiculous. One might think specialization leads to better quality and content. But instead all we get is badly written articles about superstitious nonsense about how powerful the maha hulawaliya is or something like that.
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