Ethics Eye: Recent submissions
Now showing items 841-860 of 864
-
පාසල් විවෘත වේද? වසා තිබේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-17)On July 17, 2020 Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa carried conflicting reports on when schools would reopen. Additionally, while both reports indicated the date had been determined, the article contents revealed that discussions ... -
දිවි අහිමි කරගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම්
(2020-07-20)Contrasts 2 articles published on the death of Benjamin Keough on July 18, 2020. One in-line with media guidelines for reporting on suicide, and the other in violation of certain guidelines -
නිෂේධනාත්මක නාමකරණ !
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-20)Some articles published on July 20, 2020 used terms with negative connotations to refer to certain groups -
"දූෂණය"වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය" හෝ "ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" වැනි යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-20)Several articles published on July 20, 2020 used the term "දූෂණය" to refer to sexual abuse. -
ලිංගික අතවරයට පත් අයෙකුගේ අනන්යතාවය හෙළි නොකළ යුතුය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)A Mawbima article published on July 17, 2020 named the victim of sexual abuse and used inappropriate terms ("දූෂණය ") to refer to the incident. -
කාන්තා ඡායාරූප පෙන්වා වට්ස්ඇප් ඔස්සේ ගණිකා සේවයක් පවත්වාගෙන ගිය දෙදෙනෙක් කොටු වෙති - මෙම සිරස්තලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔබේ අදහස කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)An article published by Mawbima on July 20, 2020 carried the following headline: Two people who were conducting a prostitution service over WhatsApp by sharing images of women, get caught -
General Election 2020: TV News Coverage of Political Parties - 13-17 July 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-21)Prime time TV news coverage afforded to the main political parties contesting the 2020 General Elections by selected TV Sinhala language TV channels in the period 13-17 July, 2020 -
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-22)On July 20,2020 several newspapers violated media ethics guidelines in their coverage on suicide -
දිවි අහිමි කර ගැනීම් වාර්තා කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-22)Various articles published on July 20 and 21, 2020 violated media ethics guidelines in their coverage of suicide -
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? -
තහවුරු කළ - නොකළ පුවත්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-23)On July 23, 2020 various papers reported on the 'murder' of 'Angoda Lokka' in India. Some reported the news as though it was confirmed, other as though it was unconfirmed. Police stated they were awaiting official confirmation. -
කාන්තාවකගේ බාහිර රූපය ඉස්මතු කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-24)A Mawbima article published on July 24, 2020 mentioned that a woman's physical appearance in an instance where it was irrelevant to the story being covered. -
සැකකරුවන්ද? ඝාතකයින්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-24)Articles in Divaina and Aruna published on July 24, 2020 refer to "murderers" in the headline and "suspects" in the body of the article. Investigations were still ongoing. -
දූෂණය - කෙළෙසීම - වැනසීම වැනි වදන් වෙනුවට "ලිංගික අපරාධය" හෝ බාල වයස්කරුවෙක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් නම් "ලිංගික අපයෝජනය" වැනි යෙදුම් වඩාත් යෝග්ය වේ
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-27)Various articles published in June in Mawbima and Aruna use the term "keleseema" (pollution) in coverage on sexual abuse/a sex crime. One article names the underage victim. -
Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19 -
COVID-19 and Prejudiced Points
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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