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Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)
On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ...
සිව් දෙනෙකු නිදොස් කොට නිදහස් කෙරේ, තිදෙනෙකුගේ පමණක් වාර්ගිකත්වය ඉස්මතු වේ!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-04)
This Mawbima article published on June 02, 2020 regarding a group of persons who were acquitted only highlights the ethnicity of three Tamils in the group.
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04)
In May 2020 articles published in Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina and Aruna referred to persons addicted to drugs using terms such as "kuddan" and "mathkudu loleen" which carry negative connotations.
"දූෂණය - කෙළෙසීම" වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය" හෝ බාල වයස්කරුවෙක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් නම් "ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" වැනි යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ.
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-25)
Several articles published in June 2020 used terms connoting "pollution" to refer to victims and survivors of sexual assault/harassment.
පියාඹන පීරිසි සහ චන්ද්රිකා කීපයක ආලෝක ධාරා: වඩාත් වගකීම් සහගත වාර්තාකරණය කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-08)
The Sunday Mawbima on June 07, 2020 referred to: "a flying saucer that could...belong to aliens". Reporting on the same UFO sighting Mawbima, published on June 08, 2020 described: "beams of light from...satellites". However, ...
අර්ථ දැක්වීම් සහ සාරාංශගත කිරීම් - නිවැරදිව උපුටා දැක්වීමේ භාවිතාව මෙයද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-10)
Mawbima & CeylonToday's June 7, 2020 headlines claimed EC member Hoole said "Do not vote for SLPP"ග
Based on EE's translation of the interview (in Tamil) this did not appear to be a verbatim quote but an interpretation ...
මරණ තර්ජන එල්ලවී ඇත්තේ: ජනපතිටද? බන්ධනාගාර කොමසාරිස්ටද? නිලධාරීන්ටද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-23)
Several articles published on July 21 and 22, 2020 carried conflicting reports on whom the target of death threats had been: the president, or prison commissioner/ officials?
එක්පාර්ශවික වාර්තාකරණයක් නොවන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-20)
On May 20, 2020 Mawbima & Divaina ran front page articles claiming R. Hoole's daughter violated quarantine regulations. These articles had no bylines, only vague sources cited (i.e. "EC workers" & "information channels") ...
අශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න යෙදුම් භාවිතය: නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research', 2020-09-15)
From the 1-9th of September Divaina, Dinamina, Aruna, Mawbima and Lankadeepa published uncivil words for drug addicts which do not comply with media ethics guidelines.
කාන්තාව පමණක් විශේෂ වුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-08)
Several articles published in August 2020 in Aruna, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima, Dinamina, Sunday Mawbima, Sunday Lankadeepa, Sunday Divaina, Sunday Dinamina, Weekend Aruna frequently highlighted the presence and gender ...