Browsing Media by Subject "Unethical reporting - publishing derogatory terms"
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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. -
අශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න යෙදුම් භාවිතය - නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-04-28)In the month of April 2021, articles published in Divaina and Aruna used derogatory terms such as "kudda" and "mathloliya", which is considered disrespectful and is against media ethics guidelines. -
ආබාධ සහිත පුද්ගලයන්, භාෂාව සහ දත්ත
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05-24)In the month of May 2022, an article published in The Island used derogatory language to describe persons with disabilities in the content as "disabled persons" "handicaps", and "mentally disabled", while the headline ... -
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. -
එක් පුවතක්, ගැටළු ගණනාවක්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-26)In the month of January 2022, an article published in Sunday Divaina which contained the ethical violations of revealing the identity of minors, sensationalising sexual crimes, trivialising sexual crimes, using the word ... -
කෙලෙසූ, පිස්සු වැටුණු, මෙහෙකාරිය, කොරෝනා මව, කාක්කිය වැනි නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05)In the month of May 2021 articles published in various Sinhala newspapers used derogatory terms such as කෙලෙසූ, පිස්සු වැටුණු, මෙහෙකාරිය, කොරෝනා මව, and කාක්කිය. -
"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. -
“ගණිකාව” / “ගණිකා වෘත්තිය” ද? නැතිනම් ලිංගික ශ්රමිකයා / ලිංගික සේවය ද? ඔබ තෝරාගන්නේ කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-01-21)In the month of January 2022, Sunday Divaina and Sunday Lankadeepa used the terms "ganikawa" and "ganika wruththiya", which are derogatory terms to describe sex workers and sex work respectively. -
'ජාවාරමුන්' ද? 'ජාවාරම්කරුවන්' ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-12-16)In the month of November 2021, articles published in Mawbima, Aruna and Lankadeepa Online used the term "Jawaramun", which is a derogatory term used to describe individuals who are involved in racketeering. -
"දුෂණය" වෙනුවට ලිංගික අපරාධය?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02-15)In the month of February 2022, Lankadeepa, Aruna, Mawbima and Dinamina reported on a sexual crime against a German woman, where the crime was named as "duushanaya". It is a deorgatory term used to describe sexual crime, ... -
"දූෂණය", "කෙලෙසීම" වැනි යෙදුම් වලට වඩා "ලිංගික අපරාධය" යන්න වඩාත් උචිත වේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-08-16)In the month of August 2021 articles published in Divaina, Mawbima and Aruna referred to sexual assaults using derogatory language which is a violation of media ethics. -
නිවැරදි වාර්තාකරණය කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-08-06)In the month of August 2021 an article published in Lankadeepa used derogatory language to refer to a COVID-19 patient which is a violation of media ethics. Mawbima reported the same news without using derogatory language. -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ භාවිතය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)During the month of October 2021 Lankadeepa, Divaina, Mawbima and Aruna published several articles which contained the ethical violations of using derogatory and backward terms such as "haamputha", "mathloliya" and "ganika", ... -
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, 2022-10-03)On 27 September 2022, Mawbima and on 29 September 2022, Lankadeepa, published articles unnecessarily highlighting the profession of an individual accused of sexual harassment of students by using the term ‘gura’ (ගුරා), ... -
නිෂේධනාත්කම යෙදුම් භාවිතා කිරීම සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-12-08)On December 12, 2022, Mawbima published an article which used the derogatory term “gura (ගුරා)”, while Dinamina had published the same article where they have used the correct term “guruwaraya (ගුරුවරයා)” instead. -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-11)During the month of November 2021, Aruna, Mawbima, Lankadeepa and Divaina published several articles which contained the ethical violation of using the term "කුඩ්ඩා" (Kudda). Kudda is a derogatory term that negatively ... -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-09)During the month of September 2021, articles published in Dinamina, Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima referred to suspects of crimes and foreign individuals in derogatory language, which is a violation of media ethical guidelines.