Browsing by Subject "Discriminatory reporting"
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(අ)පක්ෂපාතී සිරස්තලයක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-22)In the month of February, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a prejudicial and judgmental heading that views the "Jehovah" community in negative light based on their beliefs and practices. -
අකැප ඇඳුම් හා අකැප ආහාර?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-31)In the month of March 2022, Divaina published an article about a woman who offered food to the theras at a temple. It criticised the woman, saying that her attire was inappropriate. This amounts to unethical media behaviour, ... -
අගතිකාරී ආකල්ප සහ වාර්ගිකත්වය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-09)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Sunday Aruna highlighted the ethnicity of a woman as "Tamil" and promoted social prejudices surrounding skin colour by describing her physical appearance and skin colour. -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)During the months of January 2022 and February 2022, several articles published in Aruna, Silumina, Mawbima and Divaina contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01)During the months of December 2021 and January 2022, several articles published in Mawbima, Divaina, Lankadeepa and Aruna described the physical appearance of women in different contexts as “ruumath”, “suruupi” as well as ... -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-23)On the 23rd of December 2022, Dinamina published an article, that contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using terms such as "roomath (රූමත්)”. -
අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-29)On 26 September 2022, Aruna published an article which contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of a woman by using terms such as "roomath” (රූමත්) and “roomathiyata” (රූමතියට). -
අනවශ්ය ලෙස බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06)During the month of June 2022, an article in Dinamina irrelevantly highlighted the physical appearance of women using the term ‘surupi’, while an article on the same story in the Lankadeepa did not contain the above ethical ... -
අපහාසාත්මක යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම තුළින් පුද්ගලයින් වෙනස් කොට සැලකීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07)From 10 to 30 June 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Divaina and Aruna published articles which referred to drug addicts as "කුඩ්ඩන් " (kuddan). On 19 July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina and Aruna published articles ... -
අයෙකුගේ ලිංගික නැඹුරුතාව පිළිබඳව අගතිගාමී යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02-13)On 12th February 2023 Sunday Lankadeepa published an article which called a homosexual relationship an "asammatha premaya" which is prejudiced and discriminatory towards the LGBTQ+ community. -
අසමානකම් දුරු කර ඒඩ්ස් අවසන් කරමු: ලෝක ඒඩ්ස් දිනය 2021
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-08)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa Online used a misleading and misinforming headline when reporting on HIV/AIDS, which misinforms the reader that HIV/AIDS is only transmitted sexually, ... -
ආබාධ සහිත පුද්ගලයන් පිළිබඳ වාර්තාකරණයේ පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාව වඩාත් සුදුසු වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-09-02)In the month of September 2021 an article published in daily Divaina referred to persons with disabilities in ethically unaccepted language. -
ආබාධ සහිත වූවන්, "සක්කර වට්ටම්" ලෙස දකින වාර්තාකරණ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-24)In the month of March 2022, an article published in Lankadeepa did not use a person first language when referring to a person with hearing disability, which is discriminatory toward persons with disabilities. -
ඍණාත්මක සන්දර්භයන් තුළ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු නොකරමු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)An incident was reported on 31 August 2023 by Dinamina and Daily News of how a woman, along with three others had been arrested for the crime of torturing someone. Ada had reported on 18th September that two females along ... -
ඍණාත්මක සන්දර්භයන්හි අදාළ නොවන වාර්ගිකත්වය ඉස්මතු කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-24)In the month of March 2022, Ethics Eye published an infographic which presents a comparative study of 2020 and 2021, analysing the data pertaining how ethnicity was irrelevantly and negatively highlighted in the Sinhala ... -
එකම පුවතක්, දෙස් විදෙස් සිරස්තල දෙකක් - ඔබේ අදහස?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-01)In the month of November 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa Sandella used the headline "Short Raani" in an article quoting an interview with the actor Raani Mukherji, which discriminates people based on their height. -
ඒකාකෘතික කිරීමක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-15)In the month of February 2022, Aruna published an article on an incident relating to an indigenous person, which includes a cartoon where indigenous people have been stereotyped. -
"ඔමික්රෝන් කත ද?" ඔමික්රෝන් වැලඳුණු කත ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-09)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Lankadeepa used the term "Omicron katha", which discriminates and blames a patient contracting the COVID-19 virus. Meanwhile, Dinamina published an article on the same ... -
කලු/සුදු රාමු සහ ස්ත්රී පුර්ෂ භාවය මත පදනම් වූ කොන් කිරීම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09-07)In the month of September 2021 an article published in Sunday Aruna referred to Jaqueline Fernandez using colour and gender discriminatory language which is a violation of media ethical guidelines. -
කාන්තාව වෙන් කොට සලකන සහ කාන්තාවන් පමණක් ඉස්මතු කරන වාර්තාකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October, Mawbima, Divaina, Aruna and Dinamina published articles which discriminated women. When reporting law-breaking incidents where both men and women were involved and the women were not in the ...