Comments on: Calling Jayantha Dhanapala a liar, or the tragedy of Lankan public life https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life Journalism for Citizens Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Fitzpatrick https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56722 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:42:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56722 In reply to Julianna Sunfeld.

What a wonderful write up Julianna, thank you.
You should consider writing a full length rebuttal either to CT or GV on this matter and I am sure they will consider inclusion.

]]> By: Julianna Sunfeld https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56719 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:21:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56719 Now that I’ve read the essays on Colombo Telegraph– what a pity its blocked, I’d say that Dr. Weerawardhana seems even slicker that Dr. Dhanapala, who hasn’t really said very much about this. What Dr. W seems to saying is that Friday Forum, which I thought was a serious group of right thinking professionals, is but according to Dr. W, “a loose knit group” that doesn’t seem to have much gravity. More, “..[a]dherence to a loose-knit group such as the Friday Forum does not deter one from corporate engagements, and when the need be, from adapting an attitude that corresponds to such engagements.” So ones “corporate engagements” come first, and those engagements shape ones “attitude.” Over on the CT site lots of people had commented on how much ‘company directors’ get paid, and also pointed out that the whole point of ‘non executive, independent’ directors is that they can be ethical guides to the company. But seems like the first puts ‘paid’ to the second. (is that a pun?).

If this is what being a public intellectual is about, then that’s awfully sad isn’t it?

]]> By: Julianna Sunfeld https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56718 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:12:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56718 In reply to Groundviews.

thank you!

]]> By: Groundviews https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56717 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:23:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56717 In reply to Shehan.

Use https://www.torproject.org to access CT – as you already know, CT is blocked in SL.

]]> By: Groundviews https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56716 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:22:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56716 In reply to Julianna Sunfeld.

Suggest you use TOR (https://www.torproject.org) to access the site.

]]> By: Julianna Sunfeld https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56715 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:26:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56715 Would it be possible for groundviews to post the relevant articles linked by the author, which are on Colombo Telegraph, since this website is inaccessible from Sri Lanka?

]]> By: Shehan https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56714 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:16:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56714 How come the links in the article don’t work? I’m using hutch.

]]> By: Dev https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56713 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:53:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56713 The continued silence (except the short communication with CT early on) from Jayantha is quite revealing. Is he hoping that it will all blow away ?

]]> By: NJ@LA https://groundviews.org/2014/04/12/calling-jayantha-dhanapala-a-liar-or-the-tragedy-of-lankan-public-life/#comment-56711 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 04:16:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=14892#comment-56711 Ramblling diatribe impossible to make sense of! Dhanapala is known to be a critic of GOSL diagressions from democratic path & so any suggestion that he is a party to blocking press freedom is mindless! Story headlines that he is a liar. But the text does not support it in any way???? NJ@ LA.

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