Browsing by Subject "Discriminatory reporting"
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කොවිඩ් 19 සහ කොන් කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09)In the month of September 2021 articles published in daily Lankadeepa and Dinamina referred to COVID-19 patients using derogatory and discriminatory language which is a violation of media ethical guidelines. -
"ගණිකාව" ද? ලිංගික ශ්රමික කාන්තාව ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-14)In the month of December 2021, articles published in Mawbima and Aruna used the term "Ganikawa", which is a derogatory term to describe sex workers that leads to social discrimination. -
ජනවාර්ගික හෝ ආගමික අසමගියට තුඩු දෙන ආකාරයේ වාර්තාකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-05)During the month of May 2019, news published in Divaina on Easter Sunday attack and about the gynaecologist’s incident at the Kurunegala hospital contained the following ethical violations: discriminatory reporting, ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04)During the months of March and April 2023, several Sinhala newspapers, i.e. Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, and Mawbima published articles containing the term "චීනා" (Cheena), which is considered derogatory towards Chinese ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-08)In the month of August 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Sinhala TV channel Hiru used derogatory terms such as "කුඩුකාරයා" (Kudukaraya), "කුඩ්ඩන්" (Kuddan) and "මත් ලෝලියා" (Math loliya) to ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)During the month of September 2023, Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima published articles which contained the following derogatory terms: "කුඩ්ඩා" (kudda), "ඊජීප්තුවා" (eejipthuva), "ජාවාරමුන්ට" (Jaavaramunta), ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-03)During the month of March 2023, articles published in Aruna and Dinamina published several derogatory terms such as "ගුරා", "සුද්දි", which are disrespectful terms to describe people that leads to discriminating individuals ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)During the month of October 2022, articles published in Lankadeepa, Mawbima, and Irida Mawbima published several derogatory terms such as "කූඩ්ඩා", and "චීන්නු", which are disrespectful terms to describe people that leads ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)In the month of June 2022, articles published in Sunday Aruna, Sunday Mawbima, Mawbima, Dinamina and Lankadeepa contained several derogatory terms such as ‘kudda’, ‘mas wedda’, and ‘math loliya’, which are disrespectful ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the month of February 2022, articles published in Aruna, Lankadeepa, Divaina, Sunday Divaina, Mawbima, Hiru and Dinamina published several derogatory terms such as "gura", "mas wedda", "kudda", and "ganikawa", which ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-29)On September 29 2022, Aruna and Dinamina published an article where they have respectively called a person addicted to drugs, an "ice putha" and a "mathloli putha". Meanwhile, Ada published the same news story without using ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම: ගුරාද? ගුරුවරයාද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02-15)On 13th of February 2023 Aruna published reported of the death of a teacher and three students in an accident, by referring to the teacher with the derogatory term 'gura', while Ada reported the same incident using the ... -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය - කුඩ්ඩා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12)During the month of December 2021, Divaina and Lankadeepa published articles which used derogatory terms in their headlines to describe persons addicted to drugs and drug traffickers, such as "Kudda" and "Kudu kella", which ... -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ: සුද්දා
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the month of January 2022, several articles published in Lankadeepa (11-01-2022) and Mawbima used the term "sudda" which is a derogatory term used to describe foreigners that leads to discrimination of foreigners ... -
"පිස්සු බෙහෙත්" ද? මානසික රෝගීන්ට ලබාදෙන ඖෂධ ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 18, 2022, an article published in Dinamina contained contradictory information in the headline and the content. While the headline described the medication given to a person with a mental disability as පිස්සු ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිත කරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-05)In May 2023, Sinhala newspapers published articles about how a police constable had sexually abused a girl with polio. On 22 May this was reported by Lankadeepa and Aruna, and on the 23rd by Dinamina. The 3 newspapers had ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතා කරමු!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Mawbima used a headline which discriminated persons with disabilities by identifying them as "disabled persons", thus not incorporating a person first language. -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the month of January 2022, several articles published in Divaina, Sunday Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Aruna, Sunday Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina contained the ethical violation of not using a person first language ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් වෙනුවෙන්...
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-01)During the month of October 2021 Lankadeepa and Aruna published several articles which contained the ethical violations of discriminatory reporting and not using Person First Language when reporting on disabled persons. -
පුවතට අදාළ නොවන වාර්ගිකත්වය ඉස්මතු නොකරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-06)On the 4th of April 2023, Dinamina highlighted the suspect's ethnicity where it was irrelevant, while Ada reported it ethically without revealing the suspect's race.