Ethics Eye: Recent submissions

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    • COVID-19 and Prejudiced Points 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)
      On 01 April 2020, Aruna ran an article quoting a vague source which claimed that hiding correct information is a trait of an individual's religion (which was also the religion of a COVID-19 patient)

    • The news on ITN: Is there a basis for it? Is it not misleading? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)
      On 26 March 2020, ITN's 09.30 pm news ran a segment on the presidential pardon granted to Sunil Rathnayake. In this segment, Rathnayake's arrest and sentence was described as being part of the alleged 'Ranaviru Dadayama' ...

    • Conspiracy theories presented without sources 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-01)
      On 31 March 2020, Divaina published an article containing a conspiracy theory regarding COVID-19 that had been refuted by factchecking sites. Divaina did not cite sources to back up its claim.

    • Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30 

      Ethics Eye Team (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 ...

    • Inappropriate Reporting on Suicide 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)
      On April 28, 2020 and April 29, 2020 Aruna, Ada, and Mawbima reported on suicide in a manner that did not comply with media ethics guidelines

    • Negative Terms 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)
      On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines

    • COVID-19: Is ethnicity relevant? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-03-20)
      On 19 March 2020 Mawbima published a news item on COVID-19 that emphasised irrelevant details including the ethnicity of a patient and (negative) details about patients

    • Ethics Eye: Bukiya - 27 February 2020 

      Verite Research (2020-02-27)
      ඉරිදා මව්බිම පුවත්පතේ පළවන 'බුකිය' නම් වන කොලමෙන් උපුටා ගත් කොටස් කිහිපයක් මෙහි දක්වා ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානයට පාත්‍ර විය යුතු කරුණු කිහිපයක් සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ.

    • Is it appropriate to use the term "mistress"? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-01-03)
      On 31 December 2019 Daily Mirror published a news item which included the term "mistress". Ethics Eye pointed out that The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a prominent international media and communications organisation ...