Browsing by Subject "Divaina"
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Conspiracy theories presented without sources
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-01)On 31 March 2020, Divaina published an article containing a conspiracy theory regarding COVID-19 that had been refuted by factchecking sites. Divaina did not cite sources to back up its claim. -
Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ... -
Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19 -
අශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න යෙදුම් භාවිතය - නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-06)In the month of June 2021, articles published in Divaina, Mawbima, and Lankadeepa used derogatory terms such as ගණිකා, කැත වැඩක්, and කොරෝනා කතක් that violate media ethics. -
අශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න යෙදුම් භාවිතය: නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research', 2020-09-15)From the 1-9th of September Divaina, Dinamina, Aruna, Mawbima and Lankadeepa published uncivil words for drug addicts which do not comply with media ethics guidelines. -
අශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න සිරස්තල සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-07-20)In the month of July 2021, an article published in Divaina included sensationalized writing and uncivilized headlines, which violate media ethics. -
අසම්පූර්ණ වාර්තාකරණයක් සහ සම්පුර්ණ වාර්තාකරණයක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-29)Divaina (June 25, 2020): CID said an 'organised group' visited the children summoned for #Hejaaz's ID parade & made them say that officers obtained statements by pressuring them. DailyFT added (June 26, 2020): Children's ... -
ඍනාත්මක නාමකරණ!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-26)Several articles published on August, 2020 in Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina reports the use of term “ගුරා" in the headline to refer to the offender which negatively highlight a profession but the same reports use the term ... -
එකම පුවතක්, පුවත්පත් තුනක්, අබිරහස් දෙකක්!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-26)Conflicting reports published on June 22, 2020 Aruna: The home security guard and dog of SLPP candidate have died. Mawbima and Divaina: The home security and dog at a house in Thalawathugoda/a journalist's rented ... -
එක්පාර්ශවික වාර්තාකරණයක් නොවන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-20)On May 20, 2020 Mawbima & Divaina ran front page articles claiming R. Hoole's daughter violated quarantine regulations. These articles had no bylines, only vague sources cited (i.e. "EC workers" & "information channels") ... -
එච්. අයි . වී. අසාදිතයන්ද? ඒඩ්ස් රෝගීන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08-31)In the month of August, 2020 articles published in Divaina, Aruna, Dinamina published news regarding HIV and AIDS patients which conveyed a negative idea. -
ඒක පාර්ශවික වාර්තාකරණයන්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-28)Several media outlets published May 2020 claimed that EC Member Hoole's daughter violated quarantine regulations. However, only some media outlets reached out to Hoole for a comment. Similarly, only some media outlets ... -
කාන්තාව පමණක් විශේෂ වුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08)Several articles published in August 2020 in Aruna, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Dinamina, Sunday Mawbima, Sunday Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina, Sunday Dinamina, Weekend Aruna frequently highlighted the presence and gender ... -
කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු කිරීම: කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු වනුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research', 2020-09-17)On the 17th of September Mawbima and Divaina highlighted women in their publications which does not comply with media ethics guidelines. -
කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු වනුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-28)Several articles published in July only highlighted the women in certain groups. An aruna article fairly depicted both the number of male and female suspects. -
කාන්තාවන්ගේ සුරූපී බව පුවතට අදාළ වන්නේ කෙසේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-10)An article published in Divaina on July 10, 2020 mentioned that a woman was "attractive", thus mentioning her physical appearance despite it being irrelevant to the story being covered. -
කිලිටි වූ යන අදහස දෙන "දූෂණය - කෙළෙසීම" වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය - ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" යන යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05)Several articles published in May 2020 in Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima referred to survivors of sexual assault using terms such as "dooshanaya" and "keleseema" which carry a connotation of 'pollution'. -
"කුඩු පාතාලයට සම්බන්ධ නීතිඥයන්ගේ නම් හෙළිවේ" මෙම පුවත සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-28)An article published by Divaina on July 26,2020 stated the names of lawyers with ties to the drug underworld we "revealed", but the article notes at one point that the police merely "suspect" these persons have ties. -
කෙලෙසූ, පිස්සු වැටුණු, මෙහෙකාරිය, කොරෝනා මව, කාක්කිය වැනි නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05)In the month of May 2021 articles published in various Sinhala newspapers used derogatory terms such as කෙලෙසූ, පිස්සු වැටුණු, මෙහෙකාරිය, කොරෝනා මව, and කාක්කිය. -
කෙළෙසීමද? ලිංගික අපයෝජනයද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October Lankadeepa, Divaina, Aruna, Mawbima and Silumina published several articles which contained the ethical violations of publishing pictures of minor victims of sexual crimes, using derogatory terms ...