Browsing by Subject "Unethical reporting - misleading headlines"
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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, ... -
ඔබ තෝරාගන්නා සිරස්තලය මින් කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-13)In the month of January 2022, an article published in Sunday Aruna used a sensational headline when reporting on a crocodile seen in sea near Colombo that they were preying on humans, which creates unnecessary fear in the ... -
කොවිඩ් 19 පිළිබඳ ඍණාත්මක සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-06)In the month of June 2021 articles published in Aruna, Divaina, Dinamina, Mawbima, and Lankadeepa identified the Delta Covid variant as the "Indian" variant, which creates xenophobia. -
කොවිඩ් 19 පිළිබඳ සිරස්තල සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-07-01)In the month of June 2021, articles published in Aruna and Mawbima published misleading headlines regarding Covid-19, which violates media ethics. -
නොමඟ යවන පුවත් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-12)In the month of October, Sunday Divaina published misleading headline and misleading information on Pandora papers that 93 Sri Lankans were among the individuals exposed by the Papers, whereas 93 was the total count of Sri ... -
නොමඟ යවන සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05)In the month of May 2021 articles published in Aruna, Divaina, Sunday Divaina, Lankadeepa, and Dinamina used misleading headlines that violate media ethics. -
නොමඟ යවන සිරස්තල සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-06)In the month of June 2021 articles published in Aruna, Lankadeepa, Divaina and Mawbima included misleading headlines, which violates media ethics. -
මානසික ආබාධයක් ද? "උන්මන්තක භාවයක්" ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-15)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Aruna contained contradictory information in the headline and the content. While the headline described the individual involved in an incident as one suffering from a ... -
වැරදි තොරතුරු ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-14)In the month of February 2022, an article published in Dinamina carried a misleading headline as it stated that Sri Lanka has the lowest fuel prices in South Asia. In the body of the article, it has been stated that Sri ... -
විවාහක යුවළක් ද? "අනියම් යුවලක්"ද? ඔබ තෝරාගන්නා පුවත් වාර්තාව කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-05)In the month of October 2021, Mawbima, Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa ran mismatching news articles on a murder. Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa reported that a dispute between a married couple had ended in the ... -
සාධාරණීකරණය කෙරෙන අපරාධ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-03)In the month of December 2021, an article published in Aruna used a headline that justified the crime reported in the news, which misleads the reader and blames the victim and normalises crimes such as acid throwing. -
සිරස්තලය සහ අන්තර්ගතය සැසඳෙන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09-29)In the month of September 2021 the headline and the content of an article published in Sunday Mawbima did not match with each other. The headline contained misleading information while the content reported the news item correctly.