Browsing by Subject "Inappropriate terms"
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නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-23)Several articles published in June 2020 negatively labeled persons addicted to drugs by using terms such as "kudda" and "mathloliya" to refer to them. -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-02)Several articles published in June 2020 negatively labeled persons addicted to drugs as "kuddan". -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-30)On July 30, 2020 articles published in Lankadeepa referred to persons addicted to drugs using terms such as "kuddan" which carry negative connotations. -
"මත්ලෝලීන් උසිගැන්වූ කොරෝනාව බැඳ දමමු!" මෙම සිරස්තලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-15)An article in Aruna published on July 14, 2020 negatively labeled a certain group as "මත ලෝලීන්" and appeared to cast blame for the resurgence of COVID-19 -
මෙතැනින් වඩාත් නිවැරදි යෙදුම කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-02)An article in Mawbima published in June 2020 used the term "person with a disability" whereas a similar article used in Aruna referred to the person as "disabled". The highlighted the preference for person-first language ... -
මෙවැනි යෙදුම් පිලිබඳ ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-24)Covid-19 coverage in Aruna and Lankadeepa on April 23, 2020 used the term “wathu” to refer to certain areas. -
ලිංගික අතවරයට පත් අයෙකුගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළි නොකළ යුතුය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)A Mawbima article published on July 17, 2020 named the victim of sexual abuse and used inappropriate terms ("දූෂණය ") to refer to the incident. -
ලිංගික අපයෝජනය - ලිංගික අපරාධය යන යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-19)Several articles published in June 2020 referred to survivors of sexual assaults using terms that suggest they were 'polluted'. -
ලිංගික අපයෝජනයට ලක්වූ ඇයගේ ඡායාරූප ජනගත කිරීම උචිත නොවේ!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-10)An article published by Divaina on July 10, 2020 published the photo of the victim of sexual assault and used the term "keleseema" (pollution) in coverage on sexual abuse/a sex crime. -
වාර්ගිකත්වය සඳහන් කිරීම පුවතට ඍජුවම අදාළ වේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-24)This Mawbima article published on June 21, 2020 did not include information regarding suicide helplines, mentioned ethnicity despite it not being directly relevant and use inappropriate terminology. -
"ශ්රී ලංකා හාම්පුතුන්ගේ සම්මේලනය" - මෙම නාමකරණය පිළිබඳ ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-29)This Aruna article published on April 23, 2020 identified the Employers' Federation of Ceylon (EFC) as "Hamputhunge Sammelanaya". At present EFC's official name is "Sevya Sammelanaya". Moreover, "Hamputhun" evokes a ... -
ශිෂ්ට චින්තනයක් වෙනුවෙන් ශිෂ්ට භාෂා භාවිතයක්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05)Articles published in May 2020 Lankadeepa, Aruna and Mawbima used the term "mas wedda" which carried negative connotations. -
සමේ වර්ණය පදනම් කරගත් සුද්දිය වැනි යෙදුම් භාවිතා නොකරමු !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-13)An article published by Sunday Mawbima on July 12,2020 included the term "සුද්දා" which carries negative connotations -
සමේ වර්ණය පදනම් කරගනිමින් සිදුවන කොන්කිරීම් ඉවතලිය නොහැකිද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-26)This Sunday Mawbima article published on April 26, 2020 referred to foreigners by the pejorative term "sudda" -
සමේ වර්ණය පදනම් කරගනිමින් සිදුවන කොන්කිරීම් ඉවතලිය නොහැකිද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-06)An article published by Aruna on April 04, 2020 used the pejorative term "suddan" to refer to foreigners. -
සෘණාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-30)The headlines an Aruna article published on July 29, 2020 refer to a "නරුම ගුරා". Even in instances that concern a serious offence, the media are advised to maintain the neutrality of their coverage rather than use terms ... -
හාම්පුතා, මෙහෙකාරිය වැනි නාමකරණයන් තවමත් මාධ්ය තුල යොදාගැනීම පිළිබඳව ඔබේ හැඟීම් කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-23)An article published by Lankadeepa on June 23, 2020 included terms that connote a master-slave relationship such as හාම්පුතා and මෙහෙකාරිය.