A homophobic Editorial: Professional negligence or genuine belief?
Photo courtesy the febrile imagination On the 29th of July 2010 I read a strange and badly written editorial that appeared in the . To put it mildly, the editorial was a…
Media and Communications
Media Development Authority: Another name for media control in Sri Lanka?
The recent announcement of Government of Sri Lanka’s (GOSL) intention to establish a Media Development Authority (MDA) in Sri Lanka could be taken as an indication of its approach towards media in…
Letter to the Editor of Sunday Observer: Racism and editorial incompetence
This letter was published in the . Dear Sir, I am writing in response to Malinda Seneviratne’s article “Language standards: whose version of our reality should we inhabit?” (, 20 June 2010)….
Freedom to create, censorship and the future of Sri Lankan cinema: an anecdote
NB: The following is a brief (and therefore rather incomplete) note on the censorship and state-control imposed on present-day Sri Lankan cinema, where filmmakers are forced to be conscious of the prevalent…
Compilation of special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka
Download the 162 page compilation of content as a PDF in high quality (25.4Mb), or low quality (3.7Mb). The low quality version is good enough to read, but the photos will look and…
Hard Talk
Many readers may have seen if not read about Defence Secretary Gothabhaya Rajapaksa’s interview with Stephen Sackur of the BBC HardTalk programme in which he calls Sarath Fonseka a liar and threatens…
Post-War Sri Lanka: Way Forward or More of the Same?
Without peace, there is no development; without development there is no peace, President Rajapaksa has said. Yet, for the overwhelming majority of the population he presides over, life is quite harsh under…
Has journalist J.S. Tissanaiyagam really received a Presidential pardon?
The External Affairs Minister, Prof. G.L. Peiris, who has absolutely nothing to do with the judiciary, claimed at his first press briefing yesterday – 3 May – that President has DECIDED to…
The future of tourism in Sri Lanka: A conversation with Renton de Alwis
Renton de Alwis was one time Chairman for Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau. As noted on this website, he has over 35 years experience in marketing, communications and tourism related areas, having…
Curated list of best Twitter accounts by Sri Lankan bloggers
Visit http://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-bloggers to read updates from Sri Lanka’s leading bloggers. Resident in the country as well as in the diaspora, these Twitter feeds feature updates ranging from the quirky and personal to…
Curated list of the best Twitter accounts on Sri Lanka
Visit http://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-news to access some of the best Twitter feeds on Sri Lanka, providing a range of news, analysis, situation updates, opinion and critical links. The list already features feeds from independent…
A response to “News websites caught red-handed doctoring video to make president look racist”
A news item on Lakbima News titled . “Websites such as , a partial NGO website run by one Sajana Hattotuwa, under-qualified sub-standard ‘‘journalist’’ pretender, with a sub-standard ‘qualification’ from some obscure…
The media ‘Konvicted’
The Akon rumpus, with all its nutty and freaky sides, did have one thing good about it. It raised the question, “what is media freedom ?” Except for “”Sirasa”” and its group…
Online journalism is the way forward, but tell this to Sri Lankan media companies
GROSS PLAGIARISM BY NIBRAS BAWA, AUTHOR OF THIS POST A sharp reader alerted that this article contains plagiarised content. Upon further inspection, we discovered that entire portions of the article have been…
The Slide in Sri Lanka
The 24th of February marked the first month anniversary of the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, the Lanka E-News journalist. Two special Police teams are said to be on the case. They have…