Browsing Ethics Eye by Subject "Inaccurate reporting"
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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, ... -
එක් සිදුවීමක්, සිරස්තල කිහිපයක්!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09-27)On 26 September 2022 and 27 September 2022 Dinamina, Divaina and Lankadeepa published articles about the same incident (of asking the former first lady Ayoma Rajapaksa for a bribe), while referring to the person allegedly ... -
ගැටළු සහගත වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07-08)On July 7, 2022 two articles published in Lankadeepa and Mawbima contained contradictory reporting when it came to the resignation of Nimal Siripala de Silva from his ministerial portfolio. While Lankadeepa reported the ... -
දුමින්ද සිල්වා සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාකරණය සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-06-02)In the month of June 2022, Duminda Silva was arrested by the CID. The tv channels Sirasa, Derana, Rupavahini, Swarnawahini, ITN and Siyatha reported the news of his arrest, while the channel Hiru did not report the news. -
නිරවද්ය නොවූ තොරතුරු සහ පාඨකයා නොමග යවන සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-08)In the month of August 2019, articles published in Aruna, Lankadeepa, Resa and Divaina contained misleading headlines and inaccurate reports about the removal of Ranjan Ramanayake from the ministry, the bank accounts of ... -
නිරවද්ය නොවූ තොරතුරු සහ පාඨකයා නොමග යවන සිරස්තල
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-04)During the month of April 2018, news published in Sunday Rivira, Sunday Divaina, Dinamina, Divaina and Daily FT violated following media ethical guidelines: misleading headlines, sensationalising incidents, reporting ... -
නිරවද්ය නොවූ තොරතුරු, පාඨකයා නොමග යවන සිරස්තල සහ ඡායාරූප
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-07)In the month of July 2018, articles published in Mawbima, Lakbima and Sunday Divaina contained misleading headlines, inaccurate information and reporting in a manner that may lead to communal disharmony which is a violation ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-07)In the month of July 2019, news items published in Silumina and Sunday Mawbima (21 July 2019), reported different information on the same news i.e. about Dr Shafi’s case. Also, an article published in Dinamina (15 July ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-10)Newspapers have reported conflicting information when reporting on the end of the war heroes' fast. Divaina, Mawbima and Lankadeepa reported that fast ended because of the interference of Sajith Premadasa but the same ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-09)In the months of August and September 2019, Divaina has used a misleading headline and inaccurate information when reporting about the dismissal of petitions against the death penalty and the news of the nomination for the ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-05)During the month of May 2019 news published in Divaina, Mawbima, Ada, Lankadeepa violated following media ethical guidelines: misleading headlines, reporting without sources and inaccurate information. Meanwhile, Lakbima ... -
නිරවද්ය සහ සාවද්ය වාර්තාකරණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-09-09)In the month of September 2021 an article published in daily Lankadeepa quoted Dr Neelika Malawige's statement on schools incorrectly which is a violation of media ethical guidelines. The same was reported by Sunday Mawbima ... -
නිවැරදි මූලාශ්ර ඔස්සේ ලබාගත් පුවත් සහ පුවතට අදාළ නිවැරදි ඡායාරූප පමණක් පල කරමු!
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-09)During the month of September 2022, Mawbima reported of a death of a Russian oil trader with a picture of the assassination of a past Japanese Prime Minister, thereby resorting to inaccurate reporting. Meanwhile, Sunday ... -
නිවැරදි වාර්තාව කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-03)Based on coverage from selected Sinhala, Tamil and English newspapers on 12 March 2019, this infographic shows the press reporting of the drug raid in Moratuwa which contains different figures on the same news. -
නිවැරදි වාර්තාව කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-01)In the month of January 2019 news items published in Lankadeepa and Mawbima reported two different figures on the same news. Also, an article published in Ceylon Today provided inaccurate data about ADB aid but the Mawbima ... -
නොගැළපෙන වාර්තාකරණයන් සහ මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-05-25)In the month of May 2021 several Sinhala newspapers published information regarding the Port City Economic Commission Bill, which was inconsistent. -
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 ... -
මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම කඩවීම් වළක්වා ගැනීමට නම්...
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10-11)In the month of October 2021, articles published in Lankadeepa and Lankadeepa Online contained several media ethical violations. On October 1, Lankadeepa published a photo of a mass gathering, claiming that it was the crowd ... -
රුසියානු- යුක්රේන අර්බුදය 2022: වැරදි ඡායාරූප
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-03)In the month of March 2022, an article published in Divaina used old photographs from past incidents to report on the Ukraine-Russia crisis 2022, which is a media ethics violation as it misinforms and misleads the public. -
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 ...