Browsing by Subject "Unethical reporting - Publishing derogatory terms"
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අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)During the months of October 2022, several articles published in Dinamina, Mawbima and Sunday Divaina contained the ethical violation of irrelevantly highlighting the physical appearance of women using terms such as "roomath" ... -
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 ... -
කාන්තාවන් පිළිබඳව වාර්තා කිරීමේදී, ඒකාකෘතික කිරීම්, කොන් කිරීම්, අනවශ්ය බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම්, 'ගණිකා' වැනි යෙදුම් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-02)During the months of February in 2023, the newspapers, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Dinamina, Mawbima, Ada and Sandella published several articles which were discriminatory towards women. To elaborate, the following violations were ... -
කොටියා ද? හිටපු එල්ටීටීඊ සාමාජිකයා ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-10)On October 23, 2022 Divaina and on October 24, 2022 Daily News reported the pardoning of former LTTE cadres who were convicted by courts over LTTE activities including the bombing of former president Chandrika Kumaratunge. ... -
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: 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 ... -
පියෙකු ද? "නරුම" පියෙකු ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-07-30)In the month of July 2023, Sinhala newspapers Silumina and Sunday Lankadeepa published articles that used the term "නරුම පියා " (Naruma piya) to describe the suspect which is demonising. Also, the article published in ... -
"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 භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-01)During the month January 2023, several articles published in Ada, Mawbima and Irida Mawbima, didn't contain person-first language when referring to persons with disabilities. Some of the terms that were used were "ශ්රවණාබාධිත" ... -
පුද්ගල ප්රථම භාෂාවක් භාවිතය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07-28)On July 28 2022, an article published in Aruna newspaper used the term “disabled”, thereby discriminating them. A similar article in Dinamina used the reference“people with disabilities” instead, thereby using person-first ... -
බංගලියාද? බංගලිදේශ ජාතිකයාද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)In the month of November 2021, two articles published in Lankadeepa Online and Divaina used the term "Bangaliya" (බංගලියා) which negatively describes a Bangladeshi national, which thus is a derogatory term. In the meantime, ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තා කිරීමේදී, සැහැල්ලු කොට දැක්වීම, හැඟීම් කළඹවන සුළු ආකාරයෙන් වාර්තා කිරීම සහ 'දූෂණය', 'කෙළෙසීම' යන යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)On the 1st of September Sinhala newspapers Dinamina and Mawbima reported of an incident where a 19 year old man had abused a 14 year-old girl whom he had run away with. The newspaper headlines had trivialised the headlines ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-02)During the month of February 2018, Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Sunday Divaina, Sunday Mawbima, Rivira, and Lakbima published several articles which contained the following ethical violations: using the derogatory terms "දුෂණය" ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-01)During the months of December 2022 and January 2023 Mawbima, Dinamina, Aruna and Lankadeepa had several articles published on sexual crime, which contained the following ethical violations; the use of the word 'දුෂණය' in ... -
ලිංගික අපරාධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-11-28)On 28 November 2018, an article published in Thinakkural which contained the ethical violations of disclosing the personal information of the victim and the relationship between victim and perpetrator/suspect when reporting ...