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දිවයින කතුවැකිය: වෛරී සහ වගකීම් විරහිත වාර්තාකරණය
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-27)This Divaina article published on May 24, 2020 -Presents as facts, points that EC Chairperson Deshapriya had already refuted in a statement to the press on May 21. -Doesn't reference Hoole's statement in Colombo ... -
ඒක පාර්ශවික වාර්තාකරණයන්?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-28)Several media outlets published May 2020 claimed that EC Member Hoole's daughter violated quarantine regulations. However, only some media outlets reached out to Hoole for a comment. Similarly, only some media outlets ... -
පාඨකයා නොමඟ යවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණයක් නොවේද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-06-09)A Dinamina editorial & Mawbima article—published on June 08, 2020—criticised EC member Hoole for allegedly insulting the Sinhala language by identifying it as a language in which garbage is written. Hoole reportedly made ... -
"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 ...