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"චීනා": නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ, සෘණාත්මක සන්දර්භ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-16)This article published by Divaina on April 16, 2020 used the pejorative term "Cheennu" to refer to Chinese nationals. -
රූමත් බව පුවතට අදාළ වන්නේ කෙසේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-28)An article published by Divaina on April 28, 2020 unnecessarily mentioned that the woman concerned was "attractive". -
"චීනා": නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ, සෘණාත්මක සන්දර්භ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-15)An article published by the Sunday Mawbima on April 12, 2020 negatively labeled Chinese nationals as "Cheennu". -
කොරෝනා: ධූමකේතුවකින් පැමිණියේද? විද්යාත්මකව තහවුරු වී ඇත්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-06)Quoting an astrobiologist an article published in Mawbima on April 05, 2020 claimed COVID-19 was brought to earth on a comet. However, it omitted the fact that this opinion is rejected within the very article that this ... -
සමේ වර්ණය පදනම් කරගනිමින් සිදුවන කොන්කිරීම් ඉවතලිය නොහැකිද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-06)An article published by Aruna on April 04, 2020 used the pejorative term "suddan" to refer to foreigners. -
නිවැරදිම තොරතුරු පළ කරමු!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)An article written by a doctor and published by Aruna on April 02, 2020 stated that the World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that the SARS-COV-2 virus can survive in the air for up to eight hours. However, no ... -
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04)In the month of April 2020 articles published in Mawbima, Aruna, Dinamina, Lankadeepa and Sunday Lankadeepa violated various media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide. -
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. -
කිලිටි වූ යන අදහස දෙන "දූෂණය - කෙළෙසීම" වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය - ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" යන යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05)Several articles published in May 2020 in Aruna, Divaina and Mawbima referred to survivors of sexual assault using terms such as "dooshanaya" and "keleseema" which carry a connotation of 'pollution'. -
"ශ්රී ලංකා හාම්පුතුන්ගේ සම්මේලනය" - මෙම නාමකරණය පිළිබඳ ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-29)This Aruna article published on April 23, 2020 identified the Employers' Federation of Ceylon (EFC) as "Hamputhunge Sammelanaya". At present EFC's official name is "Sevya Sammelanaya". Moreover, "Hamputhun" evokes a ... -
භාවාතීශය වාර්තාකරණය කුමක්ද? තීරණය ඔබට භාරයි!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-29)This post compares the headlines of 2 articles published in April 2020 on the same event. The Guardian: Baby and three-year old stabbed to death at house in East London. Mawbima: A lake of blood in the house in ... -
භාවාතිශය වාර්තාකරණයක් අවශ්යද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)On April 23, 2020 several TV channels reported on a sensitive situation relating to a wildlife officer's death, which included footage of relatives crying. Sirasa, Derana & Hiru: prominently featured audio & video of ... -
සන්ත්රාසය, තැතිගැන්ම දනවන මෙවන් ඡායාරූප පළ කිරීම පුවතට අවශ්ය වේ ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-13)This article published in Aruna on May 11, 2020 included an uncensored image of a dead body. -
කොරෝනා සහ කොන් කිරීම්, ද්වේෂ සහගත ලෙස රෝගය බෝ කිරීමද? නොදැනුවත්කමින් බෝවීමද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-13)An article published in Mawbima on May 13, 2020 carried the following headline: “Ghanian patient infected 533 at workplace with COVID-19". This violates guidelines for reporting on COVID-19 issued by the Ministry of Health ... -
කොරෝනා = කාන්තාව? අගතිකාරී නිරූපනයක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-16)A cartoon published by Sunday Divaina on April 12, 2020 portrayed Covid-19 as a woman. -
කොවිඩ්-19 කුමන්ත්රණ කතා!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-15)According to this article published by Mawbima on April 10, 2020 Prof. Lieber was arrested for claiming that China paid a US scientist to create COVID-19. However, fact-checkers confirmed the arrest wasn’t connected to COVID-19. -
නිවැරදිම තොරතුරු පළ කරමු
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-06)This article published by Aruna on April 02, 2020 claimed that the WHO stated that if Covid-19 deaths were to be buried instead of cremated, the resultant grave would need to be at least 8 feet deep. However, this statement ... -
කාන්තාව පමණක් විශේෂ වුයේ මන්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05)In May 2020 articles published in Mawbima, Lankadeepa and Aruna frequently highlighted the presence and gender of women in certain groups and situations (e.g. an arrest, a motor accident). -
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05)In the month of May 2020 articles published in Mawbima, Aruna, Divaina, Virakesari and Thinakaran as well as footage broadcast on Sirasa and Derana violated various media ethics guidelines for reporting on suicide. -
අසම්පූර්ණ හා නොමග යවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක් ?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-08)An Aruna article published on May 28, 2020 carried the following headline: "Hejaaz Hizbullah withdraws petitions". However, the article did not mention that the Habeas Corpus petitions filed by Hizbullah's family were ...