Chris Morris, a senior BBC journalist, has been covering Sri Lanka from periodically from 1992 when he was first posted to Colombo as its resident correspondent. His latest broadcast from Colombo (January 7, 2009) is typical of the BBC slant on Sri Lankan issues. He is focusing on “civilians dying” in the last stage of [...]
What price “Freedom of the Press”? : Reporters Without Borders have taken umbrage at the Sri Lanka government’s action in blocking out the BBC Sinhala service “Sandeshaya” programme rebroadcast by SLBC. The Sri Lankan Diaspora welcomes this move by the Sri Lanka Government and the SLBC. This has been a long time coming.
World Food Program (WFP) country director for Sri Lanka , Mr. Adnan Khan today (Dec 10) apologized to the Sri Lankan government over a story filed by the BBC Sinhala service calling Sri Lanka a Somalia. The BBC Sinhala service paddling on its not so hidden agenda, had quoted a comment made by one Mr. [...]
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe on Saturday (Nov. 29) blasted those who demanded to know why the SLBC had blocked out LTTE boss V. Prabhakaran’s so-called Heroes Day speech. Speaking over the Isira radio channel Samarasinghe asked whether those raising this matter expected in the name of media freedom a state-run radio station (maintained [...]
LTTE propaganda channelled through foreign media including the BBC, AFP, Reuters and AP. And How they distort news reports
